Jorge Lorenzo coul꧂dn't hel🉐p but smile at the fact his best chance of a Ducati victory so far came in damp conditions at Brno on Sunday, conditions often viewed as his weak point.

The triple MotoGP champion led ꦗthe opening three laps of the Czech Republic Grand Prix on a drying track, but saw his hopes collapse when his dry bike wasn't ready at the pit stop.

Now MotoGP heads stra🌊ight to Austria, where Ducati claimed a one-two fin💯ish last season. Is the Red Bull Ring Lorenzo's best chance of a debut Desmosedici win?

"You never know! On Sunday I think I had options to win the race, but I was unlucky that the conditions changed and it💧 became a flag-to-flag race, which for me is always triﷺcky," Lorenzo said.

"If we had the 🔯race in the rain I think we had a chance to win. But obviously I would like to win also in the dry and Austria is the track theoretically better for the Duc✅ati. Let's see if I am ready enough to fight for the win."

He added: "Probably I would like to have Austria at the end of the season! Because for sure I would be more prepared and more natural with the bike, but it's okay. It's better now than the first round. I think we arrive in a good point because we found something on t♓he bike that gives me more confidence. I'm faster and more consistent. So Austria arrives just in time."

Lorenzo's competitive Brno form - he was also fourth in dry final practice and sixth in qualifying -  coi🍌ncided with the arrival of the new Ducati fairingꦏ.

"It helps in corner entry and braking🌟, but also in the middle of the corners. I am a rider who needs a lot of front contact because I put my body weight very far from the bike. So I really need to feel the front stay on the ground. If not I suffer. This fairing it gives me much more pros than cons, for my riding.

"Andrea [Dovizioso] 🦄tried it today [at the Brno test] and he is doubting about that. He feels better on braking, better on acceleration, but in some areas he didn't like it. I don't feel so much negative things, apart from thꦑe top speed.

"It's difficult💦 to arrive at the level of the old wing𓆏s, but they've been made for that."

Quizzed on why he prefers to run the shorter bi-plane version, rather than the full tri-plane fairing, Lorenzo replied: "It doesn't change so much for the moment. We have🍸 to study a little bit more but it's a ver♛y small difference."

Lorenzo set the fourth fastest lap time at th🌞e dry Monday test, as the top Ducati rider and just 0.380s from the top.

"[My form] is not only about that. I used the wings ♎all weekend and kept using them today, but also we found sꦉome settings that for me will be very important to be faster. To be more confident, for my riding. That's why we are very satisfied about today's test."

The #99 also tried the new swingarm used by team-mate Andrea Dovizioso: "A small difference, we need to study a little bit more. What ar🌳e the gains and loses."

Meanwhile the verdict on the protot🔯ype 2018 tyre was clearer: "The general comment from everyone was a little bit worse, a little more vibration. So I hope that they don’t put it for next year and the bring anꦐother one to test."

Free practice 🎃in Austria starts on Friday morning.