Dovizioso: 'Not nice' – MotoGP needs fans at the track
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Get MotoGP news in your inbox! By signing up to the newsletter you agree to receive emails from that may occasionally include promotional content Leave this field blank Andrea Dovizioso admits the novelty of a quiet MotoGP paddock soon wore off and the absence of spectators had a major impact on the atmosphere during the 2020 season.The Covid-reduced calendar meant the Italian bowed out of MotoGP, at least for now, without getting the chance to race at legendary venues such as his home Mugello round this year.However, the former Ducati rider believes even if such ‘special tracks’ had made it onto the revised schedule, it wouldn’t have been the same without the fans being present.”For sure, I think about not being able to race at some special tracks this season. But to experience tracks like Mugello without fans is not that nice,” he said. “Yes, it’s a wonderful track, but…”Prior to Covid, MotoGP riders often had to fight their way through crowds of spectators and guests allowed into the paddock, while an average of 150,000 fans attended each GP in 2019.That all changed in 2020, when a special Covid protocol introduced to save the season saw paddock numbers cut to a bare minimum. And with only Misano and Le Mans able to accommodate a few trackside fans, riders often had to celebrate in front of empty grandstands.Related ArticlesaccImages.createImage(); Ducati ‘treasure’ Dovizioso success but time to ‘turn page’accImages.createImage(); “What we did was special. We didn’t win but we didn’t lose” – Andrea Dovizioso”At the beginning of this season the way you live in the paddock, with less stress, because you can do what you want, was really nice,” Dovizioso said.”But race-by-race, every time you achieved a good result, it was so strange to not be happy like in the past. Like when I won in Austria, I was surprised because the adrenaline was completely different.”So if you go to those special tracks, you need the fans. And your fans!”Related ArticlesaccImages.createImage(); Valencia MotoGP Preview: Mir’s match point, Dovizioso bowing outaccImages.createImage(); Franco Morbidelli tops Teruel MotoGP FP3 as Ducati struggles continueIt seems unlikely that normal MotoGP fan attendance will be possible until a vaccination programme has been completed in the host country.Provisional 2021 MotoGP CalendarRound”4DateRaceCircuit”5128 MarchQatar”6Losail211 April”7ArgentinaTermas de Rio Hondo3″818 AprilAmericasCOTA”942 MaySpain”10Jerez516 MayFranceLe Mans630 MayItalyMugello76 JuneCatalunyaBarcelona820 JuneNetherlandsAssen927 JuneGermanySachsenring1011 JulyFinland*KymiRing11 To Be Decided 1215 AugustAustriaRed Bull Ring1329 AugustGreat BritainSilverstone1412 SeptemberAragonAragon1519 SeptemberSan Marino e Della Riviera di RiminiMisano163 OctoberJapanMotegi1710 OctoberThailandBuriram1824 OctoberAustraliaPhillip Island1931 OctoberMalaysiaSepang2014 NovemberComunitat ValencianaRicardo Tormo
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