Any chance of a meaningful result was over, but the RNF Yamaha rider was able to work on some ideas to help increase his corner speed on the M1, wit💎h positive ꩵresults.

The inspirat🐓ion came not from a set-up change or data analysis, but from video footage.

"We are working♔ a lot on the data. Trying to analyse, compare. But for a rider and especially in my situation, where I really still have to adapt in the way I ride the bike, when I see s🍌ome video, it helps me a lot," Dovizioso explained in Austin on Thursday.

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"Unfortunately, we couldn't get a lot of video. I think from this weekend we will get some more from Yamaha, to compare with the other riders. Simone 💞[Battistella, manager] showed me someth🌺ing after the warm-up in Argentina, in just one corner, and it helped me to make more metres [wider lines].

"With the Yamaha you have to be so fast in the middle 🎀of the corners. Whereas normally in the past, with the other bike﷽s, I always tried to do less metres in the corners. And that became my base.

"In the [Argentine] race I was trying to go a bit more in that [mid-corner speed] way and it helped me, bꦑecause in the end - it's true that I was alone and it's a bit easier - but my pace wasn't bad. In the ra🅰ce I was the same as practice and everybody else went slower than practice.

"I don’t want to say I've found something♍, but I was feeling a bit better and ဣfor sure I have to go in that direction. But unfortunately, it's so unnatural for me to ride in that way and every weekend it doesn't come instinctively, so I'm losing a lot of time."

Dovizioso hopes the attendance of Yamꦇaha's cameraman at COTA will help him speed up th♈at process.

"It's impossible to film a lot of corners, in every practice, because there is just one person [filming]," he said. "But just to have a comparison between me and the other Yamahas and the other riders helps me a lot to immediately understand, 'okay, it's clear what happened here and this is the way൲ to be a bit faster'.

"Because when you study this from the data, you can understand some things, but you don’t 🍌have the positionꦏ of the rider on the track etc. So you have to 'predict' what's going on."

All factories make use of such video footage, often ꦡ;oveౠrlaying the images to highlight differences between the riders and bikes.

After technical issues in the last two races, 𝓀Dovizioso's best finish🧸 so far is a 14th in the Qatar season opener.