Andrea Dovizioso i🔯nsists he wasn't concerned by the Qatar post-race protest filed by four rival teams against Ducati's swingarm spoiler.

The MotoGP Court of Appeal only conf𝔍irmed Dovizioso's victory on Tuesday 🀅evening, over two weeks after the race had finished.

But the Italian never felt his 25 points were at risk and believes the worst-case scenario was that the part might not be allowed in future (however team boss Gigi Dall’Ignalater stated Dovi would indeed have been disqualღified if the appea♑l had been lost!)

Instead, the Court of Appeal not only confirmed the Qatar results but rejected a request 💛to ban Ducati's tyre cooling device.

"I wasn't worried about the points. ✃In the worst case, they [the Court of Appeal] didn't give us the possibility to use that piece in future," he said.

"But also about that, I wasn't too worried because we only put that piece ☂on the bike [for the first time] in the warm-up and we don't have a lot of data about that pi🎃ece.

"When you use something i🐼t's because [it does] something interesting, but still weꦍ don’t have a lot of data about that.

"But the victory was the victory. We did a really good weekend 🧜;and I was happy to have a good feeling with the bike. It was a bit of a strange race, quite slow. But I want๊ed to do that strategy and it paid off."

Turning to this weekend's Argentine round, where the GP1🌳9 riders - Dovizioso, factory team-mate Danilo Petrucci and P🎃ramac's Jack Miller - are now free to use the rear-tyre cooling device again if they wish, Dovizioso said:

"I expect to be more competitive this year than last year because last yea🗹r I was struggling a lot. But Argentina is a strange race, we have to see the [track and weather] condition tomorrow because normally during practice it is difficult to work with the t♔yres, the lines, the set-up.

"It's still too early to understand about the championship because it looks like🤪 a lot of competitors are in a good si♈tuation, so everything can happen.

"I don't think Argentina will show t😼he reality for the season, but I expect Suzuki and Hon♚da to be really competitive here. For sure also Yamaha about the speed, they will be very competitive.

"So it 💮will be difficult to make a good ♕result, but our goal is the points. We have to bring the maximum."

Dovizioso finished sixth in Argentina last season, when Miller was the lead Ducati in fourth place (fro♕m pole position) on the damp track.