Andrea Dovizioso: Factory or Satellite? Now the difference is small in MotoGP

Factory Yamaha MotoGP machinery at a Satellite team may not be working out for Andrea Dovizioso this season, but he still believes the performance difference between Official and Independent status is now negligible.
Andrea Dovizioso, Dutch MotoGP, 25 June
Andrea Dovizioso, Dutch MotoGP, 25 June

Kenan Sofuoglu, manager of World Superbike champion Toprak Razgatlioglu, has 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:made clear that only a fact🧸ory team will suffice as far as tempting the Turkish star over to Mo🐻toGP in 2024.

Dovizioso has experienced life ⛎on both sides of the Factory-Satellite fence, starting his 15-year premier-class career on a Scot Honda in 2008, then spending three s🔥easons at Repsol Honda.

The Italian reverted to Satellite status with Tech3 Yamaha in 2012𒈔, before eight years as a fܫactory Ducati rider, where he was title runner-up from 2017-2019.

After missing the opening half of 2021, Dovizioso r💧eturned to the paddock on a year-old M1, in place of Franco Morbidelli at SRT. The #4 then switched over to the Factory spec bike 💎for the rebranded RNF Yamaha project in 2022.

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“I think if you have a chance to start [in MotoGP] with a Factory team, it’s always better,” Dovizioso said. “But in this꧋ moment to start with a Satellite team and Factory support doesn't change anything.

“In my opinion, MotoGP haꦐs changed a lot in this respect and now if you are in a good [Satellite] team with a good engineer, it's not a problem at all, if you have the Factory contract and Factory support.

“If the Factory believes in you, they can give you exactly the 💎same things [as the Official riders].”

“The difference, if you are in a𝔉 Factory team, is just♑ that you have more money to do what you want, travelling and hospitality and those things,” Dovizioso added.

“Because if the bike spec is the same, and if you have the Factory support, the engineers are the same. The engineers are taking part in the same meetings. They are doing everyt♈hing together. Always the same things.

“That's🐈 why it doesn't change if you are in a Factory team or not.

“The difference can be the relationship you have with your engineer [crew chief] and if t🐓he engineer has experience with the manufacturer to know how to manage all the details,” Dovizioso explained.

“It's not about being in a Factory team and then you have more support or better material. If [the Factory] wants, they can give yoౠu everything the same [as the Official riders].”

Clarifying that his own well-publicised issues with the M1 this season are no🐼t due to receiving less technical support as a Satellite rider, but rather the bike's inherent character grating with own his riding style, a stance supported by Morbidelli’s near identical struggles at the Factory Yamaha team, Dovizioso added:

“I think the support is OK, I don't have a problem to Yamaha𝐆. I think Yamaha can make something better overall [with 🗹the bike, but] it's not [specifically] about me, to be clear.”

While Factory t🍸eam riders are currently first (Quartararo) and second (Aleix Espargaro, Aprilia) in the world championship standings, Johann Zarco is third and top Ducati for Pramac.

Gresini’s Enea Bastianini is the next best Satel♐lite rider in fifth, and a winner of three races, while Jorge Martin (Pramac) and Marco Bezzecchi (VR46) have also made podium appearance💖s so far this year.

Andrea Dovizioso, MotoGP, Dutch MotoGP 25 June
Andrea Dovizioso, MotoGP, Dutch MotoGP 25 June

Having 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:confirmed he will not race in MotoGP♍ next season, D⛄ovizioso will start the first of his f𝓡inal nine GPs at Silverstone this weekend.

“I think Silverstone is one of the🎀 best tracks in our calendar, it’s wide and fast,” he said. “You can find everything on that track. Yet, it’s very, very difficult to be competitive there and it’s very demanding, but a really wonderful track. So it’s very nicღe to go back there and race in Great Britain.”

Dovizioso is currently tied with rookie team-mate Darryn Binder for 21st place in the world championship, with ten points. Morbidelli is 19th on 25 points while Fabio💛 Quartararo leads the standings with 172.

Quartararo is confirmed at the factory Yamaha team until the end of 2024, but Morbidelli’s contract expir✨es at the end of next year, offering a potential factory opportunity for Razgatlioglu.

Meanwhile, with RNF moving to Aprilia machinery next season, there w☂ill be no satellite Yamaha𝄹 team on the 2023 grid.

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