Andrea Dovizioso takes a fighting fifth position at Donington
Park
 After
a weekend of very differing weather conditions at the eighth
round of the MotoGP World Championship, today Donington Park
was finally kissed by sunshine. Thankfully, stable weather
conditions blessed the MotoGP race, which saw Andrea Dovizioso
on his Honda RC212V finish in fifth position for JiR Team
Scot after a very strong race. Starting from the second row
of the grid in sixth position, Andrea was able to stay with
the three leaders with Casey Stoner out front, who was pushing
hard to make a gap on the following riders. For the whole
race Andrea was able to be involved in some exciting battles
with the likes of Dani Pedrosa, Nicky Hayden and Colin Edwards.
The final position of fifth is a result, which is very important
for the World Championship in which the Italian rider maintains
sixth place overall.
Gianluca Montiron – Team Director, JiR Team
Scot
“The small amount of time at our disposal during practice
to set up the bike in dry weather affected our overall result.
Fifth position is representative of this. Andrea made a very
good start and in the early laps he was able to maintain a
very good rhythm. After this the middle part of the race saw
other riders trying hard to reach the leaders and overall
I want to say what Andrea achieved was very positive. We do
not gain any positions in the World Championship classification,
but the points achieved today were fundamental for the season
ahead. We must continue like this and take each and every
opportunity for points in the forthcoming rounds. Only working
like this we can get the final result which we deserve.”
Andrea Dovizioso – Rider, JiR Team Scot MotoGP
HONDA RC212V
5th – 3rd best lap: 1’ 29.053”
“This fifth position is an important result for us and
I’m happy about it. I made a good start, which allowed
me to make a lot of overtaking and for some laps I was there
with Valentino Rossi and Dani Pedrosa. In the first part of
the race I’m generally faster than other riders and
this allows me to gain some positions straight after the start.
Then Nicky Hayden and Colin Edwards came back at me quite
quickly. I was behind Nicky for a few laps but when I saw
Colin arriving I decided to overtake him and improve my rhythm.
It went well with Nicky as I passed him, but not so well with
Colin who beat me to the chequered flag. I was able to maintain
a good pace around 1m 29s but the bike showed the same little
problem of balance that we had on Friday. In Assen at the
next race it will be crucial and important to produce another
good result like this one.”
Gianni Berti – Technical Co-ordinator, JiR Team
Scot MotoGP
“The team did a good job today, as we did not have enough
time to set up the bike for the dry conditions. In the wet
we were ready, but Andrea was only in 13th position on Friday
in the dry conditions, so this morning in the warm-up we tried
to find the best settings possible and this translated to
a fifth place in the race: in fact the warm-up represented
for us our dry practice session. Andrea was able to interpret
the race well, and he achieved this result by making a very
good start as soon as the lights went out.”
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