Andrea Dovizioso comes home a competitive fifth at Assen
 The
Grand Prix of the Netherlands in which Andrea Dovizioso finished
in fifth position, confirms the positive trend that JiR Team
Scot has maintained during the last three races. After two
days of practice, which was disturbed by rain and unstable
weather conditions, the ninth round of the MotoGP championship
saw Andrea Dovizioso make a good start as the lights went
out, taking fifth place on the first lap. Then followed a
good fight with Chris Vermeulen, where Andrea passed the Suzuki
rider as the duo were caught by Yamaha’s Colin Edwards,
with Edwards eventually passing the JiR Team Scot rider. With
a fourth and two fifth place finishes, Andrea and JiR Team
Scot are showing that they can battle at the front of the
pack, ahead of teams with equal technical equipment.
Gianluca Montiron - Director JiR Team Scot
“The race today ended with the best result we could
possibly achieve. Andrea has exploited in the best way the
technical material at our disposal and that the Team was able
to develop. If you compare our results now on track with other
teams with the same equipment, you can see the difference
made by our rider’s skill and the effort from all of
the team behind him. From the last three races we’ve
had some good results and this is a trend which we hope to
maintain and we will keep up our levels of concentration so
we can repeat these results again or even better them.”
Andrea Dovizioso - Pilot JiR Team Scot MotoGP
HONDA RC212V
5th position, 7th fastest time: 1'37 "662
“I’m very happy with this fifth place, I believe
this is the maximum that we could achieve today. I started
well and in the early stages of race I was faster than some
of the other riders, managing to stay in front, even though
we started from the fourth row of the grid where usually it’s
hard to recover and get with the leaders. When Valentino fell,
this opened a gap for me and I benefited from it and stayed
in fifth position. After a few laps Vermeulen was behind me,
so when he came past I wanted to see where he was faster and
whether he could drag us further on. He wasn’t faster
than me, so I overtook him, as I knew Colin was coming. Colin
passed Chris and I was unable to stop him passing me. He then
had a pace I could not match. Yesterday I thought we would
be able to have a better rhythm, but our result today could
not have been better. We struggle to fight for the podium
positions and it seems that fourth or fifth is ‘our’
position in the race. We are working well and happy with the
results, even if we want better!”
Cirano Mularoni - Team Manager JiR Team Scot
“The Grand Prix of Holland ended in a good way for us
and the result acknowledges the effort from both Andrea and
the team, and the hard work put in over the weekend. A good
start was made, but we still need to be higher up the order
in qualifying, as being so far back can see errors made and
crashes take you out of the race, as we saw between Valentino
and De Puniet. The final result is important for the standings
as it sees that Andrea is in sixth with a good chance to move
further forward in the rankings.”
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