MotoGP, Petrucci: "So I don't have fun, I don't want to run for a 9th place"

"It was a fairly difficult race – said Petrucci at the end of the race – I wasn't very fast but I was checking my pace. TO 6 laps from the end I started feeling some vibrations on the rear tire and it was difficult to manage given the accelerations of this path. I'm entered survival mode. I have tried to recover some position, I arrived behind Miller but it was not possible to do better ”.

Have you already understood the origin of these vibrations?

"Was a technical problem – he said – it wasn't chattering but it's like the rubber was unbalanced and in different curves I could not enter, even with the gas closed. We do not know if it is due to a wrong consumption of the rubber, which certainly was but I was managing it. "

As said, in the last 12 races a single podium with the seasonal booty that is only two podiums and a victory. Danilo did not come to Ducati in the best year from a technical point of view (with all the problems also encountered by Dovizioso) but fighting for the top10 is not what one would have expected.

"Sure, these are not the positions I want to run. But today, as usual, I did my best but it was really difficult. I must improve my driving style when there is little grip if I want to return to compete for the positions that count ".

Therefore, one is about to end one of the most difficult seasons for Petrucci who was on the grill right away with the ghost of renewal behind him in the first races. Then the podium at Le Mans, the victory at Mugello and third place in Barcelona, ​​all lined up for to convince Ducati to believe in him for another year, only to enter into a tunnel of negative results of which Petrucci just can't get out.

"I'm not having fun, I struggle a lot in the management of the bike when there is little grip and very hot. The my weight doesn't help because in maximum fold I can't bring the right speed. At this point I'd like to finish in the top five of the world, I know it's not the best because I was third but I knew it would be difficult ”.

Final Act of this Difficult 2019 a Valencia in two weeks, will we find ourselves competitive again?

"In Valencia you should do less hot and maybe this will help me to go a little better ”.

Audio collected by Matteo Aglio