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Dovizioso "pushing too much" in Barcelona crash

Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso says his Catalan Grand Prix crash was down to "pushing too much" to stay in victory contention. Dovizioso was ran a little over a second behind the race-leading duo of teammate Jorge Lorenzo and championship leader Marc Marquez when he fell off his bike at hairpin-like Turn 5 left-hander. The crash marked his third retirement in four races, and leaves him 49 points behind championship leader Marquez. “I arrive five, six kilometres faster, because I was able to exit a bit better in Turn 4,” Dovizioso explained. “And I braked too much. “A mistake because I was on the limit.” Lorenzo would go on to secure his second straight win, drawing...
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