MotoGP | Dovizioso: “We're not hiding, we're aiming for the world championship”
The Ducati rider: "The 2018 bike is beautiful, with fantastic colors and the touch of gray makes it even more aggressive"
It is a Andrea Dovizioso perhaps at the height of his technical and physical maturation he is preparing to experience the 2018 season. The rider Ducati, fresh from the extraordinary second place in the last World Championship, can't wait to get back on track to do even better than last year and demonstrate that what he did in 2017 was not just an isolated exploit.
It is logical that many of the spotlights were turned on on the day of the presentation of the Ducati Team MotoGP were focused on Lio as well as on the new bike: “It's a beautiful bike, with fantastic colors and the touch of gray makes it even more aggressive. 2017 was an amazing year to experience with the team, with difficulties at the beginning, but then with exceptional results. Winning in Ducati is different. This year we aim for something more, so we want to fight for the championship. We have to work while keeping our feet on the ground. We know where and how to improve so we think about working hard to be competitive on all tracks. Starting among the favorites is a great feeling. It didn't happen to me in Moto GP, but it's been like this in the past and so I feel comfortable. There is no limit for anyone. Last championship taught me that and what I want to do is always improve".
“Compared to a year ago there are different expectations, as is the basis compared to a year ago. We are excited, but we know how strong our opponents and their bikes are – he added -. For the level that exists today in Moto GP we have to work well on everyone, especially on speed in the center of the corner. We managed to be stronger in other aspects, but if we want to play for the championship we need to improve our limits. Last year we lost the world championship because on Sundays we finished the races far behind, while Marquez was always near the podium."
Finally, an appeal to all the Ducati people: “Our fans made themselves heard and it was very important for us. I tell them to carry on like this because they are a precious help in good times and in difficult ones".
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Personally I don't like the color or the bike much. But the important thing is that it is effective. I see Dovi as very motivated and I would like to see him win his first world title in the face of the highly paid Spaniard who doesn't deserve to get on any MotoGP based on how he has behaved in the past... he should have more humility.
Andrea Dovizioso amazed by having won with a motorcycle considered "impossible" like the Ducati Desmosedici. He didn't do it just once, but six times, giving a season of dreams and hopes to Italian fans and men of the Red team. But in the cynical world of business, sponsors and racing this is not enough to reward a humble and reserved driver like the man from Forlì.
Paolo Ciabatti has made it known that it will be difficult to reach an agreement with Dovi on the contract extension (here is the statement). The 12,5 million euros per season paid into Jorge Lorenzo's account weigh on Borgo Panigale's balance sheet and which, despite the absence of victories, will be reduced slightly. The law of the market dictates betting on a five-time world champion and it doesn't matter if the feeling with the bike is still slow in arriving.
Moreover, Andrea Dovizioso had already anticipated the difficulties of finding an agreement on the renewal of the contract. The first alarm bell had already rang at the beginning of October: “Starting next year we will have to sit down and discuss – stated the pilot from Forlì -. We have to see what conditions I will find. The negotiations with Ducati will be different compared to last year." Shortly thereafter Maurizio Bruscolini, during a television programme, had anticipated the possibility that Dovi would end up in the ranks of Yamaha (official or satellite...), much to everyone's bewilderment and uproar. (This is where the indiscretion came from). After Christmas, Andrea once again underlines the difficulties of the negotiations: "My relationship with Ducati has been very complicated because I don't compromise too much", he declared in an interview with 'Il Giornale'. At the end of 2016 he had to accept having his salary halved and having to share the garage with the newcomer Jorge Lorenzo paid a lot of money.
An “economic” compromise. But also of internal relationships. “I didn't like the way the whole issue was presented to me at all.” Words that hide a certain well-hidden malaise for an entire championship, both from the results and from Dovi's mild character. But now the contract is expiring: “We are already negotiating – he admitted before the end of the new year -. It will be very difficult to agree. What is decided now will immediately affect 2018... Let's see." Lorenzo's behavior in Valencia also weighed on the mood, even though he was immediately buried under the carpet at home... “But in the end what would have changed if I had pushed the issue to make Jorge come out even worse? The important thing is that Ducati knows how things went and that this situation pays off at the right time." But when it comes to paying, Borgo Panigale's top management prefers to look in a foreign direction...
Anyway, good luck to Dovi too!
I also have the perception that they prefer to pay a foreigner perhaps for marketing, but it seems to me that Dovi with his victories has shown Ducati around the world in a big way, well
However, I think that in the end they will agree, Dovi certainly won't want to leave his creation in the hands of someone else after he's worked his ass off to develop it
the real problem will be the rivalry with Lorenzo, I think this season he won't be able to replicate the victories of last time, Honda risks in case of injury with only one rider who can really compete for the championship but if everything goes smoothly he can 'certainly working better and racing without his partner causing him problems and dispersion of points divided between teammates as happens in Yamaha and as I think will happen in Ducati soon...
I remain of the opinion that Lorenzo made a mess last year so after two years worth 25 million we should return to normality by paying him the same price he received at Yamaha and rewarding Dovizioso who in my opinion is too gentlemanly even with his teammate of the team who goes to applaud him under the podium with one face then puts a spanner in his works in the last races with another when the world championship is being played. But this is Lorenzo….
well they thought they would make a splash with Loprenzo and they overpaid him.
Blessed is Loprenzo, everyone has their own interests of course, who managed to extract so much $$
..(however, no anti-Rossist argues about Loprenzo's hiring...strange because when they paid Rossi much less it turned out to be a mess...but that's it...)
Of course, 12,5 million against Dovi's 1.. to someone who, to help him, only tried to keep him behind.. well..
excellent purchase..
Well, for that matter there is one who was paid more and did much worse.
You see that your Rossi has taken 15 per season.
Eh, it seemed strange to me that I didn't manage to throw numbers at the chest..
Ah, would Rossi have done worse than Loprenzo?...well, I don't think so
Vale at least was always the first of the Ducatis...Loprenzo doesn't seem like it to me...
Indeed, everyone who is here saying how much he takes the second lead less than Lorenzo given that he always finished behind..
These rumors with Rossi don't seem to exist to me..
But if only you say it's worse... remove the slices of salami from your eyes... and the rest of the whole salami too...
Lorenzo did better because at least he fought with the best, he didn't take ridiculous gaps like your love, and when he was in the Ducati Hayden often followed him for team orders (something known by everyone except the tavullar adepts) not to mention of the times he was humiliated by Barbera, ahahahah... me the slices and the salami?
Take off the shell that encloses your eyes and brain, ahahahahahah!
By now the brainwashing for detective stories is indelible.
“and when he was in Ducati Hayden often followed him for team orders”
have respect and don't bring up 69 for your ramblings..ridiculous
it is said that there is no one more deaf than those who don't want to hear.. then if one is also a moron then I tell you what to do..
You're just one of the worst yellow imbezels, stupid me who responds to you, ahahahahaha drown in your own greedy shit....And!
Esteem is more than mutual luminary of the chip