Fabio Quartararo leads the 2022 world championship by four points after the first seven races having taken a victory in Portugal, and second-place finishes in Indonesia and Spain against a backdrop of large inconsistency from the rest of the field.
But his results have far outweighed those of his fellow Yamaha riders, with the next best M1 currently Quartararo’s team-mate Franco Morbidelli 83 points adrift in 17th in the standings with a best of seventh in Indonesia.
Dovizioso has scored just eight points on his factory-spec Yamaha run by RNF Racing and has struggled hugely to adapt to the riding style needed to extract the best from the M1, which is to brake late and maximise corner speed to minimise the bike’s power deficiencies.
Looking at the situation as a whole, Dovizioso believes it mirrors that of Honda’s in recent years, whereby only six-time world champion Marc Marquez could get the best results out of a troubled bike.
“The bike is really good in some areas because Fabio showed really incredible things,” Dovizioso said during the French Grand Prix weekend.
“But it’s the only way to be fast, in my opinion, with this bike now. So, if you don’t ride in this way and you don’t do a lot of metres like him [in braking] and do a lot of speed in the middle of the corners, you can’t be fast because the bike with the same speed as the other bikes doesn’t accelerate from the grip.
“So, if you don’t do more speed in the middle of the corners you are not able to be fast.
“Fabio has that feeling and he is able to really dance in every track and make a lot of speed in the middle of the corners.
“It’s the only way to be fast with this bike and even more compared to the past. But, in my opinion, it’s just a difference of grip because without grip you can just be fast in the middle of the corners to be competitive.
“The chassis gives you the possibility because the chassis is really good on entry and middle…
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