After a rather frustrating qualifying session here at the Phillip Island Circuit in Melbourne, Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso sees himself starting from the fourth row of the grid in the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix.
After finishing eighth in FP3 in the morning and then crashing without harm in the next free practice session, the Italian took part in Q2, which was held on a dry track, and finished eleventh with a time of 1'29.496.
The race will get underway at 07.00 CET (16.00 local time).
โThe crash in FP4 conditioned my qualifying session a bit,โ he explained. โWe could surely have gone quicker, but unfortunately I wasn't able to ride as well as yesterday and so we start down the grid."
"A real pity, but that's the way it went and now we have only to think about tomorrow to try and work out where we can improve, because in any case my pace with the medium tyre is not bad. We're not going to give in and we'll see what we can do in the race.โ
