2022 will see MotoGP™’s most experienced rider, Andrea Dovizioso, compete in his 20th Grand Prix campaign – the Italian’s 14th in the premier class. Especially given the fact that the Yamaha he’ll be riding this season is quite a bit different to the one he raced with in 2021 – albeit, of course, the bikes have the same DNA. Two bikes that don’t have the same DNA though are the Yamaha and Ducati. Famously, Jorge Lorenzo did the opposite to what Dovizioso is doing – jumping from Yamaha to Ducati. Especially when you change bike and you go in an opposite way of the two bikes, for sure you have to change,” began Dovizioso, talking about doing the same – but different – to what former rival Lorenzo did. So you have to keep and try to use your way to ride. You have to use the balance of the two tyres in a different way. “In the way you have to ride the Yamaha, at the moment it’s not natural for me.

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