Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso has paved the way for his team to make the switch to MotoGP’s Open class after spending time during the second day of testing at Sepang running the spec Marelli ECU.

Dovizioso ran the software and said that it doesn’t work as well as the Factory systems in any areas but his laptime was very similar at the end of the day. Team-mate Cal Crutchlow did not use it.

“Today we also tried out the ECU with the Open software, there are a few different controls with it and it obviously doesn’t work as well as our Factory software, but tomorrow we’ll do some more tests,” said Dovizioso.

“The track is not as quick as the Sepang 1 tests so the times are a reference only to a certain point, but it’s always important to make comparisons with the others. We can say that we closed the gap to the front-runners and I am very pleased with the improvement over these two days.

“We’re refining the set-up of the bike, at this moment there isn’t much new material to try but we’ve managed to find something interesting. I really didn’t expect that and it’s a positive thing to experience this sensation.”