Andrea Dovizioso has c🐈onfessed the cancellation of the British MotoGP round meant a major chance to cut down Marc Marquez’s world championship lead has been missed.

All three grand prix classes had racing canned at Silverstone on safety grounds after tಞhe resurfaced circuit was unable to sufficiently drain the heavy rain which hit the track.

Both fac𝕴tory Ducati riders Dovizioso and team-mate Jorge Lorenzo, plus Movistar Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales, were tipped as victory contenders in t💝he dry at the British round which the Italian rider fears is a key moment in the 2018 MotoGP title fight lost.

“It’s a pity we couldn’t do the race at Silverstone because we were very competiti🦋ve and we missed a good oppo⛦rtunity to pick up some points on Marquez,” Dovizioso said.

But the 2017 MotoGP championship🦂 runner-up remains ‘ve☂ry confident’ going into the Misano round thanks to timely boosts from recent in-season tests at the Italian track and Aragon – with both circuits hosting the next two world championship rounds.

“We are excited about Misano because the two tests there and at Aragon in the last few weeks went really well,” he said. “We confirm📖🦩ed that we are competitive on both tracks, so we are now very confident about this weekend.

“⛎The San Marino GP is an important event for us and we want to do well there: l🥀ast year we got onto the podium in third place, but this year we’re looking to get something more.”

Dovizioso is currently fourth in the MotoGP world championship, one point behind Ducati team-ma🤪te Jorge Lorenzo in third, but 72 poiꦗnts split the Italian rider from championship leader Marquez with seven rounds remaining.