Andrea Dovizioso wasn't quite able to match his performance from the Qatar test in FP1 at Losail on Thursday night, but the Ducati rider isn't reading too much into his position just yet. Dovizioso was seventh fastest on the GP15 machine with a best time of 1m 55.980s as he finished 0.041s behind Pramac Racing's Danilo Petrucci, who was the leading Ducati rider in FP1 on the GP14.1, who posted his fastest time using the soft rear option Bridgestone tyre. Neither Dovizioso nor his team-mate Andrea Iannone, who was tenth fastest, availed of the extra soft rear tyre option and the Italian was adopting a measured assessment of his opening night performance at the spectacular desert venue. “I...
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