WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team Kicks Off Second Part of 2022

05-08-2022

WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team Kicks Off Second Part of 2022

Andrea Dovizioso and Darryn Binder each made some decent steps on Friday at the Silverstone Circuit.

Fresh but sunny weather accompanied the MotoGP World Championship on the day of return to action after the summer break in Great Britain. Recharged and eager to start all over, Andrea Dovizioso and Darryn Binder showed some progress from Free Practice one to Free Practice two on Friday.

Following his huge announcement on Thursday, Dovizioso turned his focus fully back to further improve his feeling on the Yamaha YRZ-M1 today. After finishing the first session of the weekend in P20, the Italian made up one position in FP2. In the process, he went an incredible 1.705 seconds faster and closed the gap to the front to one second.

In the meantime, premier class rookie Binder was learning his way around the iconic Silverstone Circuit once again in FP1, finishing in P24. He likewise stepped forward in the second session this afternoon, went 1.037 seconds faster, although he had a fast but harmless crash in the beginning of the session.

Both, Dovizioso and Binder and their respective crews already have some ideas in mind to further reduce their gap to the fastest on Saturday in Free Practice three at 09:55 local time (10:55 CET) ahead of FP4 and the all-important Qualifying in the afternoon.

Andrea Dovizioso

WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Racing Team

“It’s nice to be back and ride a bike in Silverstone, which is one of the best tracks. It’s so difficult and so demanding, but a really wonderful circuit. Overall, we are in a similar situation like we finished before the break. I think I can be a bit faster, so I hope I can reduce the gap a bit. Everybody is so fast, so let’s wait and see for tomorrow, also in terms of conditions. We have some ideas to improve.”

Darryn Binder

WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Racing Team

“It’s really good to be back on the bike after five weeks of summer break. It was super cool to get out here in FP1, I really enjoyed to ride the circuit on the MotoGP machine. Slowly, but surely, I started to get the feeling back after five weeks not riding the bike. I felt I could have been faster in the beginning, but after FP1, I was ready for FP2. Unfortunately, on the second lap of FP2 I made a mistake and I crashed, which messed up our session a bit, as we weren’t able to get the bike back and it messed up also our strategy quite a bit. But anyway, we’ll work on everything and be ready for tomorrow.”