A wrong tyre choice cost Andrea Dovizioso a chance to fight for back-to-back MotoGP victories at the Red Bull Ring. The Italian who won in Austria twelve months ago started from the middle of the front row. After losing the lead early to Marquez, the Italian couldn’t get past Lorenzo, instead using up his rear tyre behind his team-mate. “I couldn’t put myself in the right position,” said Dovizioso. “Marc started was very fast to make a good lap time, can stay there with the same pace but at the end maybe the tyre choice wasn’t the best one but also I couldn’t overtake Jorge. I used maybe too much the rear tyre to try to overtake Jorge and I couldn’t overtake him. “I was...
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