“This weekend, we improved a lot. Unfortunately, I was not strong enough for the podium but it’s a much better race than the last three or four,” confirmed ‘The Doctor’ after being 14 seconds off the win in Austria, 19 behind at Misano and 15 in Aragon. He continued: “I stayed in front, I started from the front row, we were competitive. Still not enough, at the end, Marquez and Dovizioso are a bit faster than us, and we need to understand if it was just the track that helped us, or the reality that we made a small step.”