Petrucci explains MotoAmerica move, Dakar tensions, future ‘with Ducati’? Full story 👉 MotoGP MotoAmerica Dakar
“I asked, ‘Do I need to bring my riding equipment with me?’ And they answered, ‘yes, you have to go there on the bike!’Yet, by the end of the event, he had proven he could compete with the world’s fastest rally riders.
“But I was so lucky. No one was expecting any results from me. So I was not really under pressure. And for me it was more easy. “I understood that I was like a problem, because imagine you have a team of seven factory riders and in September your bosses decide to make another bike [for Petrucci]. “Then all the problems I got at the Dakar regarding my bike, because just my bike had the problems, I got really really angry because the last time my bike blew up I almost crashed.”It was those behind-the-scenes Dakar difficulties that Petrucci says ultimately sold him on his next big challenge, a move to the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship – and return to Ducati.
A direct MotoGP-to-US Superbike switch hadn’t been attempted since Neil Hodgson in 2005. For Petrucci, it meant not only learning a new bike and tyres, but some very different tracks, far removed from the standard seen at grand prix circuits.
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