Andrea Dovizioso says his “perfect start” in the Americas Grand Prix allowed him to recover from his “big problem” of 13th on the grid to reclaim the MotoGP points lead. Dovizioso fell out of qualifying when Ducati team-mate Danilo Petrucci beat him in Q1 by 0.016s, and forced him to start from his lowest grid position since the 2017 Spanish Grand Prix.  After enacting the “exact strategy I had in my mind” and recovering to seventh off the line, he went onto finish just a second from the podium in fourth and take a three-point lead in the standings.  He admits a wet patch at Turn 10 robbed him of “confidence” early on and meant he...
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