MotoGP Valencia: Andrea Dovizioso “We are still too slow in the center of the corner”

It's a "resigned" Andrea Dovizioso who speaks at the end of the first day of testing in Valencia. The Ducati rider who finished ninth in fact highlighted the usual problems that slow down the Desmosedici, which doesn't want to "turn". The new asphalt is certainly a help, but the leaders are always too far away. He has the microphone.

“The track, with the asphalt still relatively new, is much more beautiful but unfortunately our limitations remain. We always struggle to make the bike turn like the others, and as a result we are limited by this aspect and are unable to get close to the other official riders: we are still too slow in the center of the corners. As for the tyres, as there are few right-hand corners, the "soft" on that side is too soft and wears out too easily. So I think that with these temperatures we will have to use the hard, even if it is a little more difficult to manage because it doesn't have much grip.”

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