Andrea Dovizioso always nearer to the Team Gresini

Article from Sportmediaset, translated by me.

It's strange to think that Andrea Dovizioso is in the most complicated case for the market, in fact until a couple of months ago he was the quietest rider. Now things changed and probably Dovizioso will have to accept the option that we didn't even want to take in consideration: moving to a satellite team.

The Honda team won't have three bikes on the track but it tries to sweeten the situation and it offers Andrea a treatment as an official rider, giving him a competitive bike and also an HRC team that would work only for him. The satellite team in that we are talking about is Fausto Gresini's team that will have Dovizioso and Simoncelli, two riders payed by the 'mother team' and two top teams, equipped with everything they need to always aim the podium.

It's kind a second official team. A solution that Andrea Dovizioso doesn't really like and that he tried to avoid showing them all the progress made in this second year in an official team, with four podiums and a forth place in the world champion fighting for the second place with Stoner and his teammate Pedrosa. These results are not so useful in front of the renunciation of a sponsor that seemed like interested in the third bike and in front of a Honda that doesn't want to spend a lot of money.

Nothing is decided but the alternatives with team Tech 3 of Pencharal aren't a lot because they do not have the budget for Andrea. It really seems like that next year Andrea Dovizioso and Marco Simoncelli will have to share the box and the aim, trying to be in front with the 4 best riders.