Having raced against Fabio Quartararo on a Ducati and now, for the past t♏hree races, as a fellow Yamaha rider, Andrea Dovizioso is well🦂 placed to analyse the new MotoGP world champion's title-winning campaign.

"I'm reallওy happy for Fabio and I think he deserved it. But apart from that, I think he did something crazy this year," Dovizioso said. "Because like always - and I have the experience to say this - every time you wa🌱tch from the outside it's impossible to see the negative points of a bike.

"🐈He is so good to use all the good things of the bike, but he's also so good not to show the bad points of th🅰e bike. To be as consistent as he has been during this season, in every race, is something crazy, something special."

After leading Ducati's factory project from 2013-2020, finishing title runner-up on three occasions, then making a MotoGP comeback with Petronas Yamaha (using the A-Spec bike) from last month's opening Misano round, Dovizi⭕oso has experienced life on both sides of the Ducati-Yamaha fence.

On an M1 for the first time since 2012, Dovizioso's top priority is to understand what it♊ takes to be quick on the Yamaha. With Quartararo the only M1 rider to even finish in the top nine since Maverick Vinales' Austrian exit, the Frenchman's technique has been an area of particular attention.

Quartararo himself cited better front-end feeling as playing a pivotaꦺl 𝓡part in his title success. Dovi also feels the standout feature of the #20's riding is braking and corner entry which, incidentally, is also the perceived area of ad💙vantage for Francesco Bagnaia over his fellow Ducati riders.

"I think in this kind of track [Misano] w🃏here you have to accelerate from a slow speed, if you don’t ride in a special way like Fabio, you struggle a lot," Dovizioso said.

"He braꦏkes very late, but it's easy to brake late. It's difficult to brake late and turn the bike like him. And he's doing it easily. I mean, if you check his practice runs, he's doing 5-6 laps and not a lot of mistakes.

"He is able to use that way to ride, everywhere. It's not about if the track has grip, he can be fast; he was fast in every condition, ever꧒y temperature and every track, riding in the same way.

"That also helped him 💖to improve practice by practice and be able to start always in the fi🌌rst two rows, more-or-less. And be consistent in every situation."

Braking is also where Dovizioso is currently losing the most꧒ time to 🧜Quartararo.

"I'm not braking that good, but I have a different [spec] bike [to Quartararo]. In that 𝔍part [braking] I think the [Factory] bike is different. But how much, I can't know," Dovizioso said.

"So, on braking I'm not that good and every time I enter the corners, I 🉐don’t have the right speed and I can't do🧔 the line I want. So I'm always a bit long [deep], and then I don’t carry the corner speed I need to use the best potential of the bike.

"Overall, when you are not that good on braking. you make a mi😼stake in all the other areas. That's what happened for me in every lap during this race."

While Quartararo was celebrating Yamaha's first world championship since Jorge Lorenzo in 2015, with fourth place from 15t🌊h on the grid, Dov🐷izioso finished a disappointed 13th.

After impressing by closing the gap to +25s and being the next best Y💦amaha behind Quartararo in Texas, Dovizioso dropped back to the same +41s margin to victory as in last month's Petronas debut. While Dovizioso's finishing position improved from 21st and last at Misano 1, Misano 2 saw eight retirements.

"Fro💖m the beginning I didn’t have the feeling and I wasn't fast, I was struggling and th𝄹at's it," Dovizioso said. "I think it was another important experience because we used the same tyres [medium front, soft rear] as most other riders, different than Misano 1 [medium rear]. And in my opinion it was wrong. For two reasons:

"First because the tyre dropped a lot in the last 10 laps, but especially because in t✨he way I ride I need support before the traction areaཧ and the soft didn't give it to me. So I wasn't fast in the beginning when the tyre had the maximum potential and then after it dropped.

"I felt bad, I wasn't smooth enough. I'm working and I'm fighting with the bike becauཧse I have to change the style, my lines, and to do five practices not in normal dry conditions and th💜en start the race was very difficult. I didn't really have the speed in the beginning so I used the tyre and my energy in a bad way. I didn't drop about the energy but I wasn't smooth enough. So I'm not happy about that.

"I think the conditions didn’t 🍒help me to get the feeling. It wꦓasn't worse than Misano 1, but I didn't make a step forward. Especially after Austin, where I was faster and closer.

"I'm not too happy about that but overall, fortunately, we are not fighting for the championship and also when you ma🦹ke these kind of weekends, you gain important experience. Especially for the Yamaha engineers, because the limit during the [damp] practice was quite clear."

Stepping from the Ducati, arguably the best wet weather bike, Dovizioso had been able to confirm the weakness of the Yamaha ꩵon a drying track - the only conditions where even Quartararo struggles to extract speed from the M1.

After finishing this season on the A Spec, Dovizioso will join Quartararo and Franco Morbi𒅌delli in having the latest Factory S🧔pec Yamaha, for the newly-formed RNF team, in 2022.