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New Ducati hire Dovisioso talks neck injury, hope for the future

Italian reveals that micro-herniation of neck vertebrae forced early exit from Jerez testMADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO, ITALY, JAN 15 – Wrooom, the annual journalist ski meeting put on by Phillip Morris in the Italian Dolomites, is legendarily known for not providing a superfluity of meaningful news. That was certainly the case last year when highly regarded technical wizard Filippo Preziosi spoke for over 45 minutes while saying virtually nothing. Preziosi is no longer an integral part of the MotoGP team, so there was optimism that we might learn something on the first official day of activities.

That optimism was dashed 35 minutes later when new Ducati signee Andrea Dovizioso completed his session with the media. The Italian didn’t reveal much news, other than about the injury that kept him out of the final Jerez Ducati test, but that wasn’t entirely Dovisioso's fault. Foul weather compromised the post-Valencia test and a micro-hernia in his neck shut him down when he tried to ride the Ducati GP12 in Jerez. So he said what he could about what little he did learn in his limited time, but mostly focused on what he was hopeful would happen.

“Unfortunately, I did just a few laps with the Ducati, so I cannot say much,� Dovisioso began. “I did an hour and a half in Valencia, but the conditions were a bit special. The first feeling has been positive, because I was expecting a bike that could be difficult to manage it based on what I'd heard, but my first contact was not such. And, of course, I'm going to have to see what we start doing good times with the best, so we’ll. In Jerez, I had a problem with my neck so I cannot ride the bike. These are two important days even if it was cold. A few hours could have been exploited. Luckily, we’re going to have six days in Malaysia, so I’m going to have the time to understand more about the Ducati bike.�



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