Andrea Dovizioso (born 23 March 1986) is an Italian former professional motorcycle racer. He raced with WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team for the 2022 season but announced his intended-retirement after the Misano round in September.[1]
Dovizioso was the 2004 125cc World Champion, but is best known for his time with the Ducati Team in the MotoGP class, finishing championship runner-up to Marc Márquez for three consecutive seasons in 2017, 2018 and 2019.[2]
Dovizioso is one of the most successful modern MotoGP riders with 15 victories and 62 podiums.
Dovizioso first came to prominence by winning the 125 cc World Championship in 2004. He then finished third in the 250 cc World Championship in 2005 and was twice a runner-up to Jorge Lorenzo in 2006 and 2007. He made his debut in MotoGP in 2008 and immediately finished 5th in the standings as the top satellite rider earning a move to the Factory Honda team in 2009. In his three seasons with Repsol Honda, he scored 15 podiums, including a maiden MotoGP win at Donington Park, and had a highest championship position of 3rd in 2011.[3] He moved to Monster Yamaha Tech 3 in 2012 and finished in 4th position getting six podiums which earned him a move to Factory Ducati team in 2013. In 2016 Dovizioso recorded his first win in seven years in Malaysia.[4] In 2017, he found the extra pace needed to challenge for the title with six wins throughout the season, but Marc Marquez, who also had six wins, clinched the title in the final round in Valencia. The subsequent 2018 and 2019 seasons proved less successful, even though he managed to win six combined races and finished runner-up yet again to Marquez. Dovizioso left Ducati after the 2020 season due to a breakdown in relations with the team.
Dovizioso finished within the top five in 10 of his first 13 MotoGP seasons and is considered one of the best MotoGP riders to not win the MotoGP World Championship.[5] He is the only rider in history to win a MotoGP race in three different decades – 2000s, 2010s and 2020s. He is nicknamed 'the Professor' due to his calculated riding approach.[6][7]
^"Dovizioso quits MotoGP after Misano, Crutchlow replaces him at RNF". www.motorsport.com. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
^"MotoGP, The Curious Case of Andrea Dovizioso". GPOne.com. 9 November 2020.
^"Dovizioso Scores Maiden MotoGP Win at Donington". autoevolution.com. 26 July 2009.
^"#DoviOnCloud9: Dovizioso storms Sepang as 9th winner of 2016". motogp.com. 30 October 2016.
^Newman, Luke (23 December 2020). "The Top 5 MotoGP Riders to never win a MotoGP World Championship". DriveTribe. Archived from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
^"we can call him Professor Dovi". MCN.com. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
^"The Professor does it again". BT Sport.com. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
AndreaDovizioso (born 23 March 1986) is an Italian former professional motorcycle racer. He raced with WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team for the 2022 season...
by AndreaDovizioso. AndreaDovizioso remained with Ducati for the 2014 season. He was joined by former team-mate Cal Crutchlow. AndreaDovizioso remained...
and AndreaDovizioso were all involved. When Lorenzo tried to dive down the inside of Dovizioso at Turn 10, he lost the bike and collected Dovizioso, which...
2016. It ran the first two pre-season tests with race riders AndreaDovizioso and Andrea Iannone without a livery. Ducati's MotoGP boss Gigi Dall'Igna...
new Desmosedici GP15, raced with two Italian riders: AndreaDovizioso and Andrea Iannone. Dovizioso and Iannone returned for another season in 2016 with...
the 2021 season as a championship replacement for Maverick Viñales. AndreaDovizioso was brought into the SRT team to replace Morbidelli during the 2021...
winners in as many races, following the trend from 2016. Ducati rider AndreaDovizioso then took his first dry-track MotoGP win at Mugello before repeating...
spring, another three consecutive races during autumn and nine overall. AndreaDovizioso finished in second and Valentino Rossi ended up in third, the former...
liner SS Andrea Doria, which famously sank in 1956, as well as four Italian warships. AndreaDovizioso (born 1986), Italian motorcycle racer Andrea Ferrara...
Imola Grand Prix and the 2000 South African Grand Prix. With a win for AndreaDovizioso in Malaysia further adding to the tally, the total of nine winners...
season, Iannone replaced Cal Crutchlow at Ducati Corse, and partnered AndreaDovizioso. Iannone achieved his first MotoGP podium on his Ducati début, finishing...
Oliveira at Tech3 after two seasons with the Ducati factory team. AndreaDovizioso left the Ducati factory team after 8 seasons with the team at the end...
podium records with 420 points and 18 podium finishes from 19 races. AndreaDovizioso once again finished second for Ducati for the third consecutive season...
aiming to hit 5000 points from pole". motogp.com. 2 June 2018. "MotoGP, Dovizioso Leonida, the battle of the 300 in Barcelona!". GPOne.com. 12 June 2019...
2022 under a number of SRT's previous agreements, with Italian rider AndreaDovizioso on a factory-specification Yamaha YZR-M1. Darryn Binder was promoted...
MotoGP category, racing alongside Colin Edwards at Forward Racing. AndreaDovizioso replaced Valentino Rossi at Ducati after spending one season as a Monster...
and his teammate on Michelins, Jorge Lorenzo. For 2009, Pedrosa and AndreaDovizioso were the team riders. For 2010, the HRC Team Director was Kazuhiko...
the championship in 2017, while his teammate and former 250cc rival AndreaDovizioso fought for the championship until the final round in Valencia. In the...
Capirossi, Dirk Raudies, Haruchika Aoki, Emilio Alzamora, Dani Pedrosa, AndreaDovizioso and Thomas Lüthi, while Honda was crowned Constructors' World Champion...
were absent from the revised grid released by FIM in January 2012. AndreaDovizioso left Repsol Honda to join Monster Yamaha Tech 3. Colin Edwards moved...
title was won by Daniel Pedrosa on a Honda. The 125cc title was won by AndreaDovizioso on a Honda. On 19 August 2003, the FIM released the initial 2004 calendar...
been released developed by Massimo Tartarini with the assistance of AndreaDovizioso and comes in 125 and 200cc The forkless front suspension is very unusual...
Repsol Honda rider AndreaDovizioso in the closing stages of the race. He did so and would go on to finish half-a-second clear of Dovizioso, becoming the first...
Morbidelli and Quartararo won three races each, Oliveira two, with Binder, AndreaDovizioso, Maverick Viñales, Danilo Petrucci, Álex Rins and champion Mir (in...
2009) and Hayden (through 2008). Satellite team riders are Nakano, AndreaDovizioso, Randy de Puniet and Alex de Angelis. The 2008 pneumatic valve version...
rider in four MotoGP events, and replaced AndreaDovizioso for the last six events of 2022 after Dovizioso's retirement announced mid-season. Crutchlow...
from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2014. "AndreaDovizioso and Ducati together beginning in 2013". motogp.com. Dorna Sports. 22...
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