Silverstone: ‘Right positions at right moments’ push Dovizioso to fourth win
Andrea Dovizioso is “a little bit surprised” to win his 4th MotoGP race of 2017 and re-take championship lead after another thriller at Silverstone.
Not even Andrea Dovizioso, championship challenger, and winner of the previous race saw a fourth victory of the 2017 coming, as the Italian admitted to feeling "a little surprised" the wake of yet another assured, measured MotoGP showing on Sunday at Silverstone.
Dovizioso freely admitted he had expected Honda riders Marc Marquez and Cal Crutchlow to dominate the afternoon’s events after morning warm-up, in which he set the eighth fastest time, seven tenths of a second off title leader Marquez.
But the 31-year old found himself in the early running amid a pulsating four-way fight for second place. As the laps went by, the Ducati man soon found himself gaining in strength, as he rode within his means to preserve his rear tyre for a final push.
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