2009 season review: Andrea Dovizioso

Date published : 11 Dec 2009 - 09:00:58

An impressive rookie season in 2008 from Andrea Dovizioso was rewarded with fifth place and a factory ride with the Repsol Honda team in 2009, and the Italian's season got off to a very promising start. Finishes of fifth in the opening two races of the season in Qatar and Japan were quickly followed by a hat-trick of fourth places in France, Italy and Catalunya as Dovizioso rose to fourth in the standings, ahead of Dani Pedrosa. However, a series of three DNFs then saw Dovizioso lose ground in his pursuit of the higher places, slipping to seventh after Germany. Those crashes at Assen, Laguna Seca and Sachsenring meant that strong results for the remainder of the season were needed if he was to regain hope of at least matching his 2008 achievement. The response was immediate from Dovizioso, as he rode a highly impressive race at Donington in testing conditions to record his first MotoGP win. A trio of fourth places at Brno, Indianapolis and Misano in the races that followed placed him back in fifth spot. A fourth crash of the season in Malaysia in the penultimate round of the calendar and an eighth-placed finish in Valencia made for a difficult end to Dovizioso's second premier class season though, as he was denied fifth place in the standings by one point. Continuing for Repsol Honda next season, Dovizioso will be determined to build on his maiden premier class win in 2010. TAGSAndrea DoviziosoShareWhat is that What is that These services external to motogp.com allow you to classify, share, rate, manage, comment on and save your favourite pieces of content in the main online social networking communities. Social network on which you can share your thoughts, photos, videos and news with other users.Free microblogging service which allows you to interact with your social network via short messages or "tweets".Content indexing service which gives you the ability to save and store all your favourite content pages in one placeSimple service which allows you to forward content to your friends or contacts via email.Social network which allows users to store and share their favourite webpages with other users with similar interests.Social networking site consisting of user profiles which includes groups with common interests, blogs, photos, videos, music and much more.Online community participation site on which users post news stories and content. Users rate and evaluate the content with the highest rated content pieces placed on the main homepageIndexing site which allows users to search for and organise all types of web content. Send MailSend To: (Enter email addresses, separated by commas. Maximum 200 characters)Your Full Name: Your Email Address: Send me a copy of this message: Add a personal message (optional): Enter the code exactly as shown : RefreshAccept Terms and conditions Terms and Conditions