Andrea Dovizioso

Dovizioso was born in Forlimpopoli to Antonio Dovizioso, a Sicilian motorcycle racer. In 2000, he won the 125cc Italian Aprilia Challenge. He took the 125cc European Championship in 2001 and also made his World Championship debut as a wildcard at Mugello that year, retiring from the race. During this period he worked with former rider and mechanic Guido Mancini, who had previously worked with Valentino Rossi and Loris Capirossi. A documentary about Mancini's career was released in 2016 by director Jeffrey Zani.

Dovizioso entered the 125cc World Championship full-time in 2002 with Team Scot Honda, finishing 16th. He improved to fifth in 2003 with four podiums. In 2004 he won the championship with five victories and 293 points.

Moving to the 250cc class in 2005 with Team Scot Honda, Dovizioso finished third and won Rookie of the Year. In 2006 the team was renamed Humangest Racing. He won two races (Barcelona and Estoril) and finished second in the championship to Jorge Lorenzo. In 2007 he won at Istanbul and Donington Park and again finished as runner-up to Lorenzo.

Dovizioso debuted in MotoGP with the Scot Racing Team in 2008. He finished fourth in his first race in Qatar, passing Valentino Rossi on the final lap. He collected consistent fourth and fifth places through the season and took a third-place podium at the Malaysian MotoGP at Sepang, finishing fifth in the final standings as the top satellite rider.

For 2009, Dovizioso joined the factory Repsol Honda team, replacing Nicky Hayden and partnering Dani Pedrosa. In July 2009 he took his maiden MotoGP win at the British Grand Prix at Donington Park in wet conditions. He finished sixth in the standings.

In 2010, he recorded further podiums and claimed his first MotoGP pole position at the Japanese Grand Prix at Twin Ring Motegi, finishing second in that race. He again finished fifth in the championship.

In 2011, Dovizioso rode in a three-bike team alongside Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa. He took multiple podiums including second places at Mugello and Great Britain, and at the Czech Republic Grand Prix he held off pressure from Marco Simoncelli. He finished third in the championship. When Repsol Honda reverted to a two-bike team for 2012, Dovizioso moved to Monster Yamaha Tech3 on a one-year deal alongside Cal Crutchlow.

Dovizioso achieved top-five finishes in his first three starts for Tech3, and a podium at the Catalan Grand Prix. He scored four podiums in a six-race stretch to finish fourth in the championship. He also won a Supermoto race on SIC Supermoto Day, a memorial event for Marco Simoncelli.

Following Valentino Rossi's departure, Dovizioso was signed to the factory Ducati team for 2013. His first seasons on the Desmosedici were difficult; he finished eighth in 2013 and fifth in 2014. In 2015 he delivered several early-season podiums including a third in the Grand Prix of the Americas. In 2016 he ended a seven-year winless run by winning the Malaysian Grand Prix, the first win in his second MotoGP decade.

The 2017 season was his most competitive championship challenge. He won six races, including becoming the first Italian rider to win the Italian Grand Prix on a Ducati, and was the first dry MotoGP victory of his career. Back-to-back wins in Italy and Catalonia, and further victories in Austria and Great Britain, put him in the title fight. He led the championship at various stages but crashed out from fourth place with five laps remaining in the final round in Valencia, finishing runner-up to Marc Márquez.

In 2018, Dovizioso won four races (Qatar, Czech Republic, San Marino, and Valencia) and accumulated nine podiums, again finishing as championship runner-up to Márquez with 245 points. In 2019, he won in Qatar and Austria — the Austrian victory coming with a final-corner overtake on Márquez. He suffered a serious crash at the British Grand Prix after colliding with Fabio Quartararo's fallen bike, temporarily losing memory, though he fully recovered. He finished runner-up to Márquez for the third consecutive season with a career-high 269 points.

In 2020, Dovizioso announced ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix weekend that he would leave Ducati at the end of the season, citing a deterioration in his working relationship with team principal Gigi Dall'Igna. He won the Austrian Grand Prix the following day, his 14th and final Ducati victory, and finished fourth in the championship.

Dovizioso took a sabbatical in 2021. He was announced as a test rider for Aprilia Racing Team Gresini but a potential race seat did not materialise, as the 2022 ride went to Maverick Viñales. Following Viñales's departure from the factory Yamaha team mid-2021, Dovizioso joined the Petronas Yamaha SRT squad to replace the promoted Franco Morbidelli for the final five races of the season, riding alongside Valentino Rossi.

Dovizioso returned with the rebranded WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team for 2022, partnering Darryn Binder. He announced his intended retirement after the Misano round in September 2022 and was replaced by Cal Crutchlow for the remainder of the season.

Dovizioso made his auto racing debut in the 2016 Lamborghini Super Trofeo at Circuit Ricardo Tormo, driving a Lamborghini Huracán. He finished fourth in the first race and won the second in the Pro-Am class. In 2019 he competed in the DTM at Misano, driving an Audi RS5 Turbo DTM for W Racing Team as a substitute for Pietro Fittipaldi, qualifying 15th and finishing 12th in his first race.

In April 2024, Dovizioso suffered a head injury and a broken right collarbone in a motocross accident at his private circuit in Arezzo Province. He was airlifted to Careggi Hospital in Florence. The head injury was not life-threatening and he regained consciousness; CT results were reported as negative.

In 2024, Dovizioso conducted private tests at the Misano Circuit and was officially appointed by Yamaha as a substitute test rider, replacing the injured Crutchlow. In June 2025 he signed a contract with Yamaha as test rider through 2027, also taking on the role of Rider Performance Advisor — a strategic position to analyse the performance of Yamaha's main riders and communicate findings to team engineers. He participated in Yamaha's V4 engine project and tested a new prototype at a private test at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

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