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Dovizioso compltes successful winter test

Andrea Dovizioso can look back at a successful week of testing with the JiR Team Scot at Jerez. The 21-year-old completed a three-day test with the team improved his time once again on Thursday.

The 2004 125cc champion improved his times on both race and qualifying rubber around the 2.748 mile (4.423km) track as he made setting changes to the chassis of his RC212V Honda as he becomes more accustomed to the four-stroke. He finished fourth overall in today's times. The test ban now comes into effect between December 1st and January 20th after which Andrea will return to Sepang in time to try his new 2008 RC212V that he will campaign throughout the 2008 MotoGP season.

Andrea Dovizioso completed 69 laps on Thursday. He commented on his test with the team: "Today was very good - a perfect day! We improved by around one second on race tyres and my feeling on the bike has improved a lot by changing some key settings. My lap time of 1m 40.3 on race tyres I'm very happy with - in fact I'm happy about this whole test. The main reason is that I don't really like this circuit too much - especially for testing - so this is a good sign. I can go to the holidays happy that we have improved the bike. We have made it a little better stability-wise under braking, but we can still improve. The front-end stability in fast corners has been getting better and better today with the changes we've made."

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