The Yamaha RNF rider from Forlì announces his farewell to the top class: “When you struggle to be competitive you don’t have fun and there’s no reason to stay. My M1 is good in some respects, less so in others and wins only with Quartararo: it wants to say is fast, but the base is very difficult and particular ”
Credits. They are the ones who are about to roll over Andrea Dovizioso’s career in MotoGP. The 36-year-old rider from Forlì, only 22nd in the World Championship with the Yamaha RNF, has confirmed that at the end of the season he will leave the premier class of motorcycling. Another 9 GPs and then Dovi will say goodbye to that paddock in which he was the protagonist for 15 seasons, collecting 15 victories and three second places in the World Championship. “I will definitely not race in MotoGP next year – Dovizioso tells the official MotoGP website -. There is no reason to do so. I have always said that I would not have stayed if I had not been competitive and I have never looked for a saddle for 2023 because when you struggle you don’t enjoy “.
difficulty
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A decision aware of the difficulties encountered this year on the Yamaha M1, but serene: “I’m calm, I’ve already done the test of what it means to stay still, I wouldn’t want to finish the season like this, but nobody has everything under control – says Dovizioso – . Every race, however, is very difficult because I start back, which complicates things further. It had never happened to me not to be competitive in my career, it is something new for me, but it is a reality. MotoGP has changed, the rivals are changed, the way of driving is different: there are many small reasons and if you put it all together, what is happening to me at the moment happens “.
complicated bike
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The transition from Ducati, with which he raced from 2013 to 2020, competing for the world championship with Marc Marquez on two occasions, to Yamaha for Dovizioso was a failure. It’s a question of a bike that is conceptually too different from the Desmosedici and on which the rider from Forlì has never been at ease: “The M1 is a very good bike in braking and mileage, it allows you to cornering very well, but struggles in other aspects and if you don’t drive like Fabio Quartararo it is difficult to be competitive: if he wins, it means that you can be fast, but if the other drivers complain, it means that there are not many ways to be competitive – explains Dovizioso -. Franco Morbidelli and me (team mate of Quartararo in the official team, ed), for example, we drive in very different styles because he is very bent over and doesn’t brake hard, unlike me, but our results are similar. All the Japanese bikes are struggling right now, maybe they win the title, but they are fast with only one rider, so it means that the base of the bike is a bit difficult and particular: it happened to Honda before and it is happening to Yamaha. Now”.
July 12, 2022 – 6:01 pm
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