Andrea Dovizio꧑so has talked up the harmo♈nious atmosphere in Ducati’s garage for 2019 after he and Danilo Petrucci helped one another during a ten-lap run in the second day of MotoGP testing at Sepang.

Dovizioso admitted his tactic – to exit pit lane with his team-mate in the late afternoon before leading him around the length Sepang tracꦏk in a high-speed chase – was “unusual”, but one that is already bearing fruit.

“I think it’s unusual what we are d💟oing now,” began Dovizioso, fourth ꦛfastest at the end of day two. “It was not unusual what we did with Jorge, or some other riders. I think we have a good relation.

“I think it’s better for him to work w𝄹ith me. And I think I can learn something also with him. Everybody have a different characteristic and nobody is better everywhere.

“So I can learn from Danilo because I think he have a better potential than what almost everybody think. H🍨e’s a really strong rider.

“He doesn’t have s𓄧ome experience like the rider wants. He grew up in a different way that us in terms of the championship, the teams he raced for, it’s a different story. But I think he has a lot of potential.

“I don’t think it’s too important for the feedback. I think it’s important to create the conditio📖n to🎉 understand and give the feedback. What we created today when we did the long run, alone I couldn’t.

“That makes the difference – not his feedback from the bike, which is always important. But that is theꦅ point.

“We split🍸 ten [laps and] ten. It was good. We don’t have any comparisons because nobody [else] did [it]. We can’t know how fast we were. I mean, the speed was really good, if we look at the race, we were much faster.

“But I think the conditions are for sure better - I don’t know how much, but for sure better. The important thing was the speed from the fastest lap to the last lap and what came out, the feeling we 🧜had during the simulation was very important to the engineer. In those conditions you are very close to the race.”