After a series of good performances, including two podiums at Mugello and Misano, the Team Pramac driver could have hoped for a lot from Phillip Island, but the weekend unfortunately did not go as planned.
During free practice, Petrucci only obtained seventeenth place in the classification combined for the three sessions, 1.044 behind the best time of Aleix Espargaro. He was preceded by his teammate Scott Redding which only has a GP16, unlike Danilo's GP17, identical to those of Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo.
Qualifying didn't go much better, with the eighth fastest time in Q1 between the two Desmosedici from the Avintia team from Loris Baz and Hector Barbera. This therefore placed Danilo on the sixth row of the starting grid, in the company of Jorge Lorenzo and Loris Baz.
During the race, Petrucci was not at all comfortable and he languished between eighteenth and twenty-second place. He completed the second half of the event in penultimate position, ahead of Broc Parkes. Finally Danilo crossed the finish line disappointed in twenty-first position, 48 seconds behind the winner Marc Marquez.
According to Danilo Petrucci, who are " It's my worst race of the season. We don't know why we couldn't compete. I really can't explain it right now. »
“Luckily Sepang is only a week away. It's a track that I really like and I hope I can do well to forget as soon as possible this weekend. »
Grand Prix results:
1 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team HONDA
2 Valentino ROSSI ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP YAMAHA 1.799
3 1Maverick VIÑALES SPA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP YAMAHA 1.826
4 Johann ZARCO FRA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 YAMAHA 1.842
5 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR LCR Honda HONDA 3.845
6 Andrea IANNONE ITA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR SUZUKI 3.871
7 Jack MILLER AUS EG 0,0 Marc VDS HONDA 5.619
8 Alex RINS SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR SUZUKI 12.208
9 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 16.251
10 Bradley SMITH GBR Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 16.262
11 Scott REDDING GBR OCTO Pramac Racing DUCATI 21.652
12 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team HONDA 21.668
13 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team DUCATI 21.692
14 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Pull&Bear Aspar Team DUCATI 26.110
15 Jorge LORENZO SPA Ducati Team DUCATI 26.168
16 Tito RABAT SPA EG 0,0 Marc VDS HONDA 26.252
17 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA Pull&Bear Aspar Team DUCATI 36.377
18 Loris BAZ FRA Reale Avintia Racing DUCATI 39.654
19 Sam LOWES GBR Aprilia Racing Team Gresini APRILIA 40.400
20 Hector BARBERA SPA Reale Avintia Racing DUCATI 45.901
21 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA OCTO Pramac Racing DUCATI 48.768
22 Broc PARKES AUS Monster Yamaha Tech 3 YAMAHA 57.711
Provisional ranking of the World Championship:
1 MARQUEZ Marc SPA 269 points
2 DOVIZIOSO Andrea ITA 236
3 VIÑALES Maverick SPA 219
4 ROSSI Valentino ITA 188
5 PEDROSA Dani SPA 174
6 ZARCO Johann FRA 138
7 LORENZO Jorge SPA 117
8 PETRUCCI Danilo ITA 111
9 CRUTCHLOW Cal GBR 103
10 FOLGER Jonas GER 84
11 BAUTISTA Alvaro SPA 70
12 MILLER Jack AUS 65
13 ESPARGARO Aleix SPA 62
14 REDDING Scott GBR 61
15 IANNONE Andrea ITA 60
16 ESPARGARO Pol SPA 49
17 RINS Alex SPA 46
18 BAZ Loris FRA 45
19 ABRAHAM Karel CZE 30
20 RABAT Tito SPA 29
21 BARBERA Hector SPA 25
22 SMITH Bradley GBR 20
23 PIRRO Michele ITA 18
24 KALLIO Mika END 11
25 LOWES Sam GBR 5
26 NAKASUGA Katsuyuki JPN 4
27 GUINTOLI Sylvain FRA 1
28 TSUDA Takuya JPN 0
Classification by manufacturers:
1 HONDA 319 points
2 YAMAHA 285
3 DUCATI 278
4 SUZUKI 87
5 APRILIA 64
6 KTM 58
Team ranking:
1 REPSOL HONDA TEAM 443 points
2 MOVISTAR YAMAHA MOTOGP 407
3 DUCATI TEAM 353
4 MONSTER YAMAHA TECH 3 222
5 OCTO PRAMAC RACING 172
6 TEAM SUZUKI ECSTAR 107
7 LCR HONDA 103
8 PULL&BEAR ASPAR TEAM 100
9 EG 0,0 MARC VDS 94
10 REALE AVINTIA RACING 70
11 RED BULL KTM FACTORY RACING 69
12 APRILIA RACING TEAM GRESINI 67
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