Danilo Petrucci believes that he could not fully benefit from what he was going through in MotoGP, especially in his best season in 2019.
Engaged in the superbike world championship since 2023,
Danilo Petrucci Has previously got in MotoGP for ten seasons, who saw him go up the ladder. First arrived in the former CRT category in 2012, he went to the Pramac satellite team in 2015. His performances allowed him to win a contract with the official Ducati team for two seasons, in 2019 and 2020. He then finished with a last year at Tech3 in 2021.
At that time, the Italian won his two unique victories in the queen category, and won several podiums. He made his best year in 2019, with a sixth final place in the championship. His following season was more complicated and he left MotoGP at the end of 2021.
-At almost 35 years old now, Petrucci
Now look at his career with a different eye, and admits to regret not having been able to take full advantage of this golden period in MotoGP, where he evolved at the forefront without being aware that things pass quickly.
“We have to slow down to really understand what we are doing, and if we are doing is really what we like”he explained in the Italian podcast La Merenda.
“We only understand it by slowing down. We say to ourselves ‘OK, I slow down to try to realize what’s going on’. Society always pushes you to always go faster, to always have more. »»
“By dint of thinking of how to go faster, I lost the satisfaction and the taste for living and enjoying the moments during which I was one of the best pilots in the world. When I was fourth at the MotoGP championship, I thought of how to be third. Now I say to myself ‘look at the one who is third, 10 years ago it was you’. When I was there, I didn’t slow down enough, I always thought of going faster. »»
