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Andrea Dovizioso rues conservative front tyre choice

Andrea Dovizioso says he “took a wrong decision” in opting for the hard front tyre, after finishing 6.4 seconds adrift of his medium-shod MotoGP team-mate Jorge Lorenzo at Mugello. While Lorenzo went for an aggressive medium front, soft rear option on his Ducati for the scorching 23-lap Mugello race, Dovizioso wanted to avoid running into tyre troubles in the high heat, and so chose the hard front. The tyre he used was identical to that he won last year's Italian Grand Prix on, but he feels the high temperatures made the hard perform “worse” having felt comfortable on it in practice. “It was very difficult,” Dovizioso said. “I think we took a...
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