Andrea Dovizioso

Andrea Dovizioso

Nation:	Italy
Motorcycle world championship
Status:	active ( MotoGP )
Start number:	4th
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR 317 24 20th 22nd
World title:	1
World Cup points:	3690
Podiums:	103
Status: Austrian Grand Prix 2020
According to class (es): 125 cc class First start: 2001 Italian Grand Prix Last start: 2004 Valencia Grand Prix Constructors 2001  Aprilia  • 2002-2004  Honda World Cup balance World Champion ( 2004 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 49 5 9 3 World Cup points: 492 Podiums: 15th 250 cc class First start: 2005 Spanish Grand Prix Last start: 2007 Valencia Grand Prix Constructors 2005-2007  Honda World Cup balance Vice World Champion ( 2006 , 2007 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 49 4th 4th 8th World Cup points: 721 Podiums: 26th MotoGP class First start: 2008 Qatar Grand Prix Constructors 2008–2011  Honda  • 2012  Yamaha  • 2013–2020  Ducati World Cup balance Vice World Champion ( 2017 , 2018 , 2019 ) Starts Victories Poles SR 219 15th 7th 11 World Cup points: 2477 Podiums: 62

Dovizioso 2009 on Honda

Dovizioso 2008 on Honda

Andrea Dovizioso (born March 23, 1986 in Forlimpopoli ( FC )) is an Italian motorcycle racer .

Dovizioso is seen as a serene and tactically smart driver, for whom the overall standings are more important than individual race wins. Based on his idol Kevin Schwantz , he started for many years with starting number 34, his nickname is Dovi .

Since the 2013 season he has competed in the Ducati factory team in the MotoGP class of the motorcycle world championship .

Career

Dovizioso was discovered by Aprilia , for whom he won the Italian 125 cc championship in 2000. In the 2001 season he was 125 cc European champion and drove as a wildcard driver in his first race in the motorcycle world championship in the class up to 125 cc.

125 cc class

For the 2002 season he switched to Honda and contested his first full season in the 125 cc class of the motorcycle world championship.

After two years with rather inconspicuous results, Dovizioso made his breakthrough in the 2004 season . With five Grand Prix victories and eight pole positions , he was world champion with 293 points ahead of the Spaniard Héctor Barberá at the age of 18.

250 cc class

For the 2005 season he rose to the 250 cc class with Honda and immediately came third in the overall standings. During the 2006 season , Andrea Dovizioso achieved two wins and a total of eleven podium finishes. Although his Honda was inferior to the Aprilias in terms of performance, he fought with the Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo for the world title in the 250 cm³ class until the last race of the season and was runner-up.

Also in the 2007 season Dovizioso competed in the 250 World Championship on a Honda. Since Honda had decided to almost completely stop the development of the 250 cc two-stroke engine , its starting position was not good. Nevertheless, the Italian won two victories, did not make it into the points in just one race and was again runner-up behind Jorge Lorenzo with a total of ten podium finishes.

MotoGP class

For the 2008 season, Andrea Dovizioso switched to the MotoGP class, where he competed in the newly created JiR Team Scot on the number 04 Honda.

In 2009 Dovizioso started alongside the Spaniard Dani Pedrosa in the Honda factory team Repsol Honda . On July 26th, 2009 he celebrated his first Grand Prix victory in the "premier class" at the British Grand Prix in Donington Park, which was characterized by difficult weather conditions .

In the 2011 season Dovizioso started again alongside the Spaniard Dani Pedrosa and the Australian Casey Stoner on a Repsol Honda factory machine.

At the end of 2011, Dovizioso's Honda contract was not extended any further. Therefore, the Italian switched to Tech-3 for the 2012 season and drove a Yamaha YZR-M1. His teammate there was the Briton Cal Crutchlow . In 2013 he switched to Ducati. Nicky Hayden became his new teammate. Nicky Hayden left the team for the 2014 season and Cal Crutchlow became his teammate again. The 2015 season is his third for the Ducati team. His new team-mate this year is Andrea Iannone . In the following year he achieved his first victory in seven years at the Malaysian Grand Prix and his second overall MotoGP victory. For 2017 he got a new teammate in Jorge Lorenzo . Before the last race in Valencia, Andrea Dovizioso was 21 points behind Marc Márquez , who was first in the championship standings. In order to become world champion, Dovizioso had to win and the Spaniard had to reach no better than twelfth place. However, since Márquez finished third and Dovizioso gave up the race after a fall, the Italian was runner-up in the MotoGP class for the first time. In the 2018 season he became vice world champion for the second time, with a clear gap of 76 points on Marc Márquez. In this stand he was on podium nine times and won four races.

In 2019 Dovizioso will continue to compete in the MotoGP class for the Ducati works team. He also completed two races in the 2019 DTM season in Misano for the W Racing Team . There he reached positions twelve and 15.

Private

Dovizioso is married and has a daughter (* 2009).

statistics

title

• Italian champion of the 125 cc Aprilia Challenge: 2000
• 125 cc European Champion on Aprilia : 2001
• 125 cc world champion on Honda : 2004
• 24 Grand Prix victories

In the motorcycle world championship

(Status: Grand Prix of Styria 2020)

season	class	team	motorcycle	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	Nice Race laps	Points	position
2001	125 cc	RCGM Rubicone Corse	Aprilia	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002	125 cc	Scot Racing Team	Honda	16	-	-	-	-	-	42	16.
2003	125 cc	Team Scot	Honda	16	-	2	2	1	-	157	5.
2004	125 cc	Kopron Team Scot	Honda	16	5	5	1	8th	3	293	World Champion
2005	250 cc	Team Scot	Honda RS-W	16	-	2	3	-	1	189	3.
2006	250 cc	Humangest Racing Team	Honda RS-W	16	2	5	4th	2	4th	272	2.
2007	250 cc	Humangest Racing Team / Scot Racing Team	Honda RS-W	17th	2	4th	4th	2	3	260	2.
2008	MotoGP	JiR Team Scot MotoGP	Honda RC212V	18th	-	-	1	-	-	174	5.
2009	MotoGP	Repsol Honda Team	Honda RC212V	17th	1	-	-	-	-	160	6th
2010	MotoGP	Repsol Honda Team	Honda RC212V	18th	-	3	4th	1	1	206	5.
2011	MotoGP	Repsol Honda Team	Honda RC212V	17th	-	4th	3	-	1	228	3.
2012	MotoGP	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha YZR-M1	18th	-	-	6th	-	-	218	4th
2013	MotoGP	Ducati MotoGP team	Ducati Desmosedici GP13	18th	-	-	-	-	-	140	8th.
2014	MotoGP	Ducati MotoGP team	Ducati Desmosedici GP14	18th	-	1	1	1	-	187	5.
2015	MotoGP	Ducati MotoGP team	Ducati Desmosedici GP15	18th	-	3	2	1	-	162	7th
2016	MotoGP	Ducati Racing Team	Ducati Desmo16 GP	18th	1	3	1	2	1	171	5.
2017	MotoGP	Ducati Racing Team	Ducati Desmo17 GP	18th	6th	1	1	-	2	261	2.
2018	MotoGP	Ducati Racing Team	Ducati Desmo18 GP	18th	4th	3	2	2	5	245	2.
2019	MotoGP	Mission Winnow Ducati	Ducati Desmo19 GP	19th	2	3	4th	-	1	269	2.
2020	MotoGP	Mission Winnow Ducati	Ducati Desmo20 GP	5	1	-	1	-	-	67	2.
total				318	24	39	42	20th	22nd	3701	1 world title

Grand Prix victories

(Status: GP of Austria 2020)

season	class	run
2004	125 cc
2006	250 cc
2007	250 cc
2009	MotoGP
2016	MotoGP
2017	MotoGP
2018	MotoGP
2019	MotoGP
2020	MotoGP

Awards

• Gazzetta Sports Award - “Achievement of the Year”: 2017

Web links

Commons : Andrea Dovizioso  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• official website (Italian / English)
• Andrea Dovizioso on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).