DOVIZIOSO will take part in the race after a 300-day break
Andrea Dovizioso is returning after a 300-day break in MotoGP. It was originally planned to return in the 2022 season, but a web of circumstances brought a vacancy to the Petronas Yamaha SRT team, which the Italian could not miss in any way. For the past eight seasons, he has been a member of Ducati, where he has become a sort of icon of this team. However, his career has had a minor bitter aftertaste so far, as he has yet to win a MotoGP world title. Above all, this is at the expense of not competing in the period when Marc Marquez became the serial winner in MotoGP. In the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons, Dovi achieved second place in the overall standings. The Italian had already competed with Yamaha in one 2012 season before moving to Ducati. "The competition is extremely high this season and everyone has similar times. In the last p