Summary of the 3-day Sepang Malaysia Team Ducati Factory test.

GDN - Summary of the 3-day Sepang Malaysia Team Ducati Factory test.
Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso had excellent feelings of the new Ducati.
It seems that all the engineers of Ducati have done a great job during the winter to get ready at the start of the season with an extremely competitive bike.

1° Day 28 January 2018 Day 1 of official MotoGP testing concludes at Sepang with Dovizioso second and Lorenzo third on their Desmosedici GP18 bikes The first day of official testing at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia, taking place from today until 30 January, concluded a couple of hours ago. The track conditions, which were damp due to the rain that fell overnight until the early afternoon, significantly reduced the useful track time for the MotoGP riders. Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo were in any case able to get the best out of the afternoon to carry out back-to-back tests between the 2018 and 2017 versions of the Desmosedici GP. Towards the end of the session both factory Ducati riders fitted a soft rear tyre on their GP18 machines to set their quickest times. Andrea Dovizioso ended the day in second place with a best lap of 1“™59.770 while Jorge Lorenzo was right behind in third with a time of 1“™59.802.

2° Day 29 January 2018 Jorge Lorenzo fourth and Andrea Dovizioso eighth on Day 2 of official MotoGP testing at Sepang On the second day of testing at Sepang, the MotoGP riders again only went out on track late in the morning because the surface conditions were still partially damp after overnight rain. The two Ducati Team men continued their schedule programme of work, concentrating mainly on the new Desmosedici GP 2018: Jorge Lorenzo ended the day in fourth place with a time of 1“™59.498, while Andrea Dovizioso was classified eighth in 1“™59.732. Tomorrow will see the third and final day of the first 2018 official MotoGP tests at Sepang, scheduled from 10 am to 6 pm Malaysian time.

3° Day 30 January 2018 Jorge Lorenzo ends official MotoGP test at Sepang at the top of the timesheets. Andrea Dovizioso fourth quickest at the Malaysian circuit The first official MotoGP test of 2018 concluded this afternoon at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia. In the morning Jorge Lorenzo lapped in a time of 1“™58.830 to establish an unofficial new track record, and the Spaniard ended the day, and the three-day test, at the top of the timesheets. Andrea Dovizioso also put in a good performance today with a time of 1“™59.169, which propelled him to fourth place both today and in the combined standings. The two factory Ducati riders today focussed mainly on notching up the laps on their Desmosedici GP 2018 machines and, despite both having harmless crashes late in the morning, they were able to successfully finish the work programme defined with their respective teams.