[Rassegna stampa] – The fall of Andrea Dovizioso, with a fractured collarbone even if it is composed, is a bad tile on the pre-season of the first Ducati guide. And with the renewal at stake, the focus is now on his ability to grit his teeth in a season that promises to be unique also in terms of battle on the track against Marc Marquez.
“Timing is everything. When making a winning overtaking a few corners from the finish or when you end up a victim of bad luck. You can hurt yourself riding a motocross bike, but maybe when the championship is over and in a stable situation. In the case of Dovizioso it happened three weeks after the start of the world championship and, above all, in the middle of a negotiation for the renewal of the contract with Ducati. Which brings with it a fair amount of tension and uncertainty. For years, with very few tests available on MotoGP, the riders have been training on cross, motard and enduro ones. Since it is not chess, it is easy to fall and get more or less serious damage. The houses know this and somehow accept it. But it’s not a good thing, because certain episodes risk throwing up months of work and robust investments. Dovi will be able to recover in time for the first world championship race in Jerez. A minimal aftermath the operation to the collarbone will leave him. Andrea can perhaps be reproached for going beyond simple training by facing a real race, which involves more competition and therefore greater risks. Certainly he has a delicate moment in his career. It will come out of it, it is solid. But timing has never been a great friend of his. An example? Being Marc Marquez when he finally had a winning bike“.
Gianluca Gasparini, The Gazzetta dello Sport
“Divided on the future, aligned on the present: the thesis of Dovizioso’s manager Simone Battistella makes the pair with that of Ducati through the Paolo Ciabatti: Andrea trains almost every day with the cross, it made no sense to forbid him to race, he fell alone. Bad luck, but it could also happen on other occasions. The damage is contained, the fracture is composed and aligned, with the affixing of a plate Dovizioso will be able to get back on the saddle within ten days. According to his manager Ducati wants to wait for the first races to make his assessments on the renewal: «We respect the decision, hoping that it will not create tension in a championship where calm will be essential. Maybe they want to evaluate the other drivers they have. They tell me they still want Andrea, and I mido di Ciabatti. Andrea, however, is calm, focused on 2020, is in shape despite the accident. If there are the right conditions then he will be interested, otherwise he will not ». Aprilia, blocked on the market by the doping case of Andrea Iannone, begins to raise the antennas“.
Paolo Ianieri, The Gazzetta dello Sport
“A training race. Little more than a stalk to get rid of the rust. Andrea Dovizioso wasn’t even forcing when he was thrown during the first heat of the Emilian cross championship, scheduled yesterday in Faenza. But when a jump landed, the rear wheel of his motorcycle lost grip except finding it immediately afterwards, catapulting it into the air. Result: non-displaced fracture of the left clavicle. A bad blow three weeks after the resumption of a World Championship already marked by postponements, due to the pandemic. Having assessed the extent of the injury, it was decided to operate it in the evening in Modena. The operation was performed by Professor Giuseppe Porcellini, the specialist who had put Valentino Rossi back on his feet in 2010, after an accident in training, always with the motocross bike. “The path of intervention was chosen to speed up recovery, although it was not essential according to the doctors” says Simone Battistella, the inseparable manager. The Bolognese team had given consent to the cross because the Forlì team is a true specialist in clawed wheels. A passion inherited from his father Antonio, an amateur cross rider, transformed over time into a necessity to preserve useful reflections and movements in Motogp. The Ducati rider had confessed to wanting to end his career with the off-road vehicle once the track suit had stopped. In early June he had explained that he wanted to run to Faenza to recover the mechanisms of the competition“.
Paolo Lorenzi, Corriere della Sera
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