The fight for the attribution of the Desmosedici 2017 to the best classified of the two drivers of the Octo Pramac Yakhnich team lasted until the checkered flag of the last race of the year, where Danilo Petrucci won the trophy by 10 seconds. advance on Scott Redding.
For next season, the Welsh team Pramac Racing Limited (based at Crown Business Park, Dukestown, in Tredegar) will have two Ducatis for its two current drivers, a new 2017 and a 2016. To decide the lucky recipient of the model more efficient, the boss of the team Paolo Campinoti decided to award it to whichever of the two would be best placed in the ranking at the end of the year. Things took a bit of a rough turn in Aragon when Petrucci crashed Redding at the start of the race, the Transalpine finishing seventeenth and the Englishman nineteenth after starting again.
Arriving this weekend in Valencia for the final event, Redding preceded Petrucci by one point, 72 to 71. Petrucci qualified twelfth, therefore on the fourth row, and Redding fourteenth on the fifth. At the end of the first lap, Redding moved into twelfth position and Petrucci into sixteenth. Then the situation changed between the two men on the tenth lap when Petrucci overtook Redding. The Italian finished in twelfth position and the Briton in fourteenth place, due according to him to a “ significant wear of the rear tire, causing a lack of grip on the left side ».
It is therefore Danilo Petrucci who won the coconut palm in the form of a Desmosedici 2017, which he will debut tomorrow Tuesday during the tests. Moreover it was the last Grand Prix of James Guidotti, chief technician of Scott Redding at Pramac, promoted next year to the same position for Dani Pedrosa at Repsol Honda.
LAST HOUR : Danilo Petrucci had to return urgently to Italy for personal reasons and will be replaced at Pramac by Michele Pirro.
