ROAD RACE
FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
ROUND 10 / AUGUST 14, 2016
RED BULL RING / SPIELBERG, AUSTRIA
P52
about the Ducatis. After an-
other three laps Dovi took over
up front. Now it was a game of
tactics.
Iannone had gone against his
team's advice to fit the softer tire
on the grid, the only one to do
so.
"It was a big risk, but from the
day before I thought the soft tire
was better with the drop-off,"
he said. "It was a difficult deci-
I knew third was the best I could
hope for today."
And a strong push from Mar-
quez, who also knew his poten-
tial (not as good as the Ducatis
or Yamahas), and said, "I knew
I had to push hard at the begin-
ning," and also that once he lost
the slipstream, his chances of
better than fourth had gone.
Dovi was ahead of Lorenzo on
lap six, and from then it was all
Iannone was in front and Lo-
renzo second, with Dovizioso
about to get ahead of Rossi as
well. And next time around also
Marquez, after Rossi ran very
wide at turn three at the top of
the hill.
It was a stunning return to
form for Lorenzo, who said later,
"I knew my potential, but every
time I have some bad results ev-
erybody says I am finished. But
