Andrea Iannone was in superb form on day 2 of free practice at the Losail
circuit, the Italian rider setting the quickest time in both of today’s sessions
(FP2 and FP3) and proving to have an excellent pace. His team-mate Andrea
Dovizioso was not far behind either: after finishing fifth in FP2, he then moved
up to fourth in FP3, three-tenths of a second away from Iannone.
As a result, both Ducati Team men go through directly into Q2, which will
determine the first four rows for Sunday’s race, and which will start at 9pm
local time (19.00 CET) tomorrow.
Andrea Iannone (Ducati Team #29) – 1’54.639 (1st)
“We finished the three free practice sessions with the best time and so for
us today was a very positive day. We are working really well and our bike is
going very strongly, so now we have to continue along this path and make further
improvements. In FP2 we went very well with the hard tyre, then in FP3 we also
tried the soft option, but it is still difficult to choose which one we will use
for the race. For the moment I am calm and relaxed about the situation because
also in the tests I always used the hard tyre and yesterday with the same choice
of tyre we didn’t go bad at all. Tomorrow we will use the FP4 session to make
the final decision.”
Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team # 04) – 1’54.945 (4th)
“I am very pleased with all the work we’ve done and with the progress we
have made in our performance: we made small steps but all of them have been in
the right direction. We arrived at the third free practice session with a fast
pace and above all with a good feeling with the Desmosedici GP, and this has
always been my priority. We have always set some good lap times and in my final
run I could have improved even more if I hadn’t made a little mistake in Turn
15. I am in any case satisfied because we are up there with the quickest riders
and we still have a margin to improve, and with this pace now we can focus on
the fine-tuning for the race.”
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