To win on MotoGP to prepare the Dakar: Danilo Petrucci opens with partial victory at the Sandalion Rally

It will not be in 2021, but Danilo Petrucci is determined to run the Dakar Rally.The Italian Ducati pilot, who will be KTM as of January 1, has never hidden his intention to dispute the hardest rally in the world on occasion.And when he has a hole, as now, he begins to practice.

Petrucci has been in the Sandalion rally these days living this type of tests for the first time.And it has not gone badly: it has ended up eleventh of the general and has even allowed the luxury of winning a stage, a special, although Petrucci could not celebrate it much because the drama got rid of that day.

In the stage that Petrucci won the Italian Sara Lenzi died in an accident

"My first rally has been great.Running out of the clues was difficult for me.I made a big mistake, I got into a path that was closed by a fence and ended like a fish.I lost many minutes, but I enjoyed it anyway.Driving in Sardinia with so many friends was fantastic, "says Petrucci.

The Italian pilot refers to a curious incident that starred during a stage, in which he ended up giving gas in the middle of a small pond without being able to leave.That made him lose enough minutes, if he could not have even more improved the eleventh position of the general, which is already pretty good.

Petrucci also lived a great drama, like the entire rally.In the special stage in which the Italian took the victory there was a fatal accident, that of the Italian Sara Lenzi, only 18 years old, who lost his life after hitting an SUV in a link in a link.A misfortune that made the rest of the stage and the later day suspend.

"Today is a sad day.I won the first stage in my debut, but the results do not matter due to this great loss.Until always, Sara, "Petrucci posted on his social networks.The Ducati pilot knew the least fun part that also have this type of tests, but that seems that it does not stop their spirits of running the Dakar.

Petrucci is now at a strange contractual moment.The 2020 season is over, it is still a Ducati pilot but from January it will run with KTM.Surely Petrucci has taken this strange situation to participate in a potentially dangerous test without the explicit permission of any brand.

'Petrux' has signed for Tech3, KTM satellite team, for next season.There will be a partner of Iker Lecuona.Petrucci has two victories in MotoGP, one in Mugello in 2019 and the other in Le Mans this year this year.At 30, we could be before the last Petrucci contract in MotoGP before facing the Dakar, who knows if with KTM.

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