When the coronavirus-delayed 2020 MotoGP calendar was revealed, a triple-header of Brno and two Red Bull Ring races made for pretty reading if you were a Ducati rider.
Having finished second in the Czech Republic last year, winning in 2018 and notching up two Red Bull Ring victories in 2017 and 2019, Andrea Dovizioso had more reason than most to be cheerful. Even without the absence of Marc Marquez, it looked like the pendulum had swung in his favour in the 2020 title race.
All he had to do was get through the Jerez double-header (two races at a track before this year he'd never stood on the podium at) not too bloodied and - as the mighty Scorpions preached - the good times would roll after the bad times had gone.