Jerez has never been a happy hunting ground for Ducati and Andrea Dovizioso, so on paper leaving the pair of season-openers with 3-6 finishes and third in the world championship🗹 is a decentꦬ result.

Not so satisfying was that the gap between Dovizioso and Petronas Yamaha race winner Fabio Quartararo 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:doubled from 6 to 12 seconds in the space of a week, a poor quaꦅlifying being compounded by a 'very strange' new problem in the second Andalucia outing.

"Position wise [sixth] is not too bad, if we thin🌸k to be in Jerez and starting 14th, because it's💫 very difficult to gain a position when the speed is very similar," Dovizioso said on Sunday. "I was able to see Valentino in third and the gap stayed the same, more or less, until four laps to the end.

"Something we didn't expeꦯct, is that fr✱om the first lap I didn't have front [feeling] in the middle of the corners. Very, very strange. We don't know why, if it's just related to the very hot conditions.

"I was quite good in straight braking and the last part of braking, but when I released the brake I couldn'꧙t carry on the speed and I couldn't push. Fast corners, slow corners, I couldn't push."

A number of🀅 riders🦩 experienced front-end overheating problems in Sunday's race, but Dovizioso said his issue was something different.

"With the Michelins an⛦d in this temperature, when you follow riders it affects you a lot. But it's the same for m🔯any years. And in this condition when the heat is even more, it's even harder to keep the pressure in the right range. But that's the same for everybody," he said.

"My problem wasn't related to temperature I think, because I didn't follow other riders really. When I overtook Danilo [lap 5], I was alo🌄ne. I had a lot of bikes in front but I wasn't that close to be affected by them.

"I w﷽as very surprised [by the problem] because this morning we did a good step with the electronics t👍hat gave me the possibility to brake harder.

"So now we have to analyse and understand everything we did. Because we changed the set-up a lot, it was very different from last week, we are in a🔯 strange, tight track and we will not find this heat in future.

"Sixth is ♒OK in Jerez, but I'm not happy with the feeling.

"Pecco showed there was a chance to be on the podium. I couldn't because I was too far behind. If had been able to rid🍷e in a better way like we expected, I think I was able to fight with Valentino for the podium."

On Saturday Dovizioso explained why he didn't want to 'copy' Pramac Ducati riders Bagnaia and Jack Miller, believing that although faster over a single lap there was no real difference in race pace and every rider needs to use their own styl💞e.

"I didn't want to copy the way they ride, I didn't want to copy the pace," Dovizioso said. "At the end, Bagnaia did a really good pace, and the best pace of 💦Duca🔯ti today.

"There is a reason; if you check the data - like everybody does for the same bike - it's like I said before, new [front feeling] problems which we didn't exp൩ect caꦬme out in the race, and we are very surprised about that.

"Because [last week] I wasn't able to brake hard, and we found the🌳 w🌠ay with the setup and the electronics to fix that, and with the change of the electronics I was able to really ride in a better way in warm-up [second fastest].

"But when I released the brake , I couldn't [feel the front]. And with these temperatures and with this grip, when you can't [feel] the bi☂ke, you are very limited.

"Pecco is riding in a better way than us, because he is usin𓃲g the rear brake and sliding in a different way. So for sure we will study, but we have already studied that.

"Jack was there, but I think he was really on the limit, and that was the reason he crashed. For sure there are a lot of interesting ♊things to study and understand, to try to be ready for Brno.

"But we know how M⛎otoGP is, every tꦜrack is a different story."

Unlike Jerez, Dovizioso and Ducati have 🐲an excellent record at Brno and Austria, whicꦗh will host the next three races in a row. However Dovizioso remains cautious about the impact of the new 2020 rear tyre.

"The tyre changed a lot of things. I think thไe competitors are a lot stronger, especially the Yamaha and the Suzuki, lik🦩e we knew before the season. So I think it will be different. And normally is a Yamaha track," he said of Brno.

"Maybe they have a limit of the engine, maybe they have some trouble with the engine, we don't know exactly the details, so maybe that will affect them. And we will use our [straight line] characteristic to t𝕴ry to be strong.

"But to speak about a good track for us is a second thing. First we have to fix what we are not doing in a perfect way, setup and everything that happened in these two races. Because a lot𝕴 of things happened."

While Bagnaia 𝐆suffered an engine problem while holding second place, Dovizioso's team-mate Danilo Petrucci joined Jack Miller in crashing out of the race.