Andrea Dovizioso took a dramatic pole position in damp conditions for the Dutch MotoGP at Assen’s famous TT track. After rain during FP4, in which a number of riders fell, Q1 started wet but the track dried throughout Q2, although the majority stayed on full-wet tyres. The works Ducati rider took the top spot on the final lap of the session as the track improved, lapping in 1m45.246s. He was seven tenths clear of Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi, Pramac Ducati’s Scott Redding (his first-ever MotoGP front row) and Honda’s Marc Marquez – who bounced back after falling at the start of Q2. Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo will start 10th, as his bad memories of Assen in the wet apparently came back...
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