Andrea Dovizioso has confirmed he will use the new Ducati fairing upgrade for the Czech Republic race after securing hi🐲s first MotoGP pole position in almost two years.

Having been identified a🎶s a front-runner during Friday practice, Dovizioso produced a final Q2 lap to bolt to pole position with a 1m 54.689s over a quarter of a 🎃second ahead of nearest challenger Valentino Rossi on the factory Yamaha to claim his first pole since the 2016 Malaysian round.

Dovizioso said he had been eager to try out the new Ducat🐓i ꧟fairing which debuted on Danilo Petrucci’s Pramac Ducati on Friday. ꦚDovizioso duly used it in both FP4 and qualifying and having been pleased with the results the Ducati rider says he’ll use the GP18 aerodynamic upgrade in the race at Brno.

“It looks like we will use it tomorrow,” Dovizioso said. “The difference is not clear and it is always difficult when you try something like that. It is difficult to understand the dif🦋ferences.

“It looks a bit better under breaking but from the morning to the afternoon we also changed the tyre so we didn’t have a lot of tim🎃e to make a real comparison so it is not clear what the positive things are or maybe if there are negative things.”

Reflecting on his sixth career MotoGP pole position, Dovizioso fe♒els the lap was aꦐ culmination of his promising practice pace having opted to push having been faster after the first intermediate split on his final flying lap.

“I am happier with the lap time that I did ra🀅ther than the pole position,” he said. “I never really do pole positions throughout my career, it is not really 💖my style, so I am not too focused on that.

“But in the way we did the lap and the pole position it ♊is important because I didn’t have anyone in front of me and I was able to push really hard and make everything in the perfect way to make a really good lap time.

“It was really hot and it was difficult to be really fast and under the 1m 55s but൲ at the end the bike worked really well.

“After the first intermediate I saw a good time and I decided to push r💧eally hard and the bike answered me.

“It was really good and I was able to brake reall🥂y hard to be smooth and use the potential of a new soft tyre. This confir🐎ms the good work we did during the weekend.”