Andrea Dovizioso says the removal of winglets helped with turning his Ducati MotoGP bike, an area the Italian manufacturer struggled in 2016, during the Sepang pre-season test. Ducati's progress included winning two races in 2016, its first victories since the '10 season with Casey Stoner, but Dovizioso and now-former team-mate Andrea Iannone had to work around a weakness in getting its Desmosedici turned. While Ducati has worked on that area with its 2017 bike, removing the winglets it developed as part of this year's ban made a difference, Dovizioso admitted. "I think the turning is better, because we don't have the winglets," he said. "But still I think it's not good like...
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