Repsol Honda rider Andrea Dovizioso will start Saturday's Dutch Grand Prix from the second row. The Italian qualified in sixth on Friday with a best time set at 1.35.015. After today's qualifying session he said he is confident and is able to improve his race even more for the race.
Dovizioso will start from the second row as he bids to extend his recent run of rostrum finishes which has seen him in the top three in four of the first five races of 2010. He set his fastest lap of the qualifying session on only his eleventh of 30 laps this afternoon and, while still lacking the front-end feeling that he’s looking for from his RC212V at Assen, he wasn’t able to improve on that lap in the second half of the session.
“Tomorrow we will start from the second row which is ok, and with a good start I hope to get away with the leaders,” Dovizioso said. “The gap to the front of five tenths of a second is not too much and we also have a good race pace, although actually I set this lap when I was following Lorenzo. We have some front end issues that we need to solve and this is what we want to sort out by tomorrow afternoon - otherwise it will be a difficult race. In fact I’m losing time in T3 and T4, which are the fastest parts of the track, so front end feel is really important here. However, I’m feeling confident and I think that me and the team can come up with some ideas to improve things for tomorrow.”
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