WSBK Superbike Indonesia J1, Danilo Petrucci (Ducati/15) confirms: “it will be one of the most difficult weekends for me”

Danilo Petrucci discovered the World Superbike racing version at Phillip Island and he adapted quite well to it. This time it's actually a circuit that he explores in the style of a secret route special of a Dakar that he knows well. A parallel that holds water if we listen carefully to the Ducati rider Barni on the state of the Mandalika track which offers no gifts if we inadvertently venture off the trajectory. This round in Indonesia, second of the WSBK season launched last weekend, can do damage...

On this first day at Mandalika, many of them have already experienced the agonies of falling in WSBK. The leaders Ducati of this Friday what are Rinaldi et Baptist could not avoid it as lecuona in the two sessions this Friday, or even Baldassarri et Loris Baz.

The reason is simple and it is well explained by Danilo Petrucci who rides for the first time on the Indonesian track: “ I have never raced here and the track is tricky due to the dirty conditions, given that there is only one line to follow. It then becomes difficult to know which one is correct. ».

Danilo Petrucci: “as soon as you move half a meter away, you risk ending up on the ground"

Danilo Petrucci even adds: “ as soon as you move half a meter away, you risk ending up on the ground ". So he confirms the feeling that inhabited him even before climbing on his Ducati Panigale V4: “ this will be one of the hardest weekends for me ».

Despite his fifteenth place, still 1s656 behind, apparently the same machine as the leader Rinaldi, the Italian pilot does not sink into depression. On the contrary… " I'm not far from the top ten, in fact that remains my goal to follow. As I said before, Australia and Indonesia will be tricky stages for us, but I try to defend myself as best I can with the aim of progressing and finding the right competitiveness ».

Indeed, when reading the time sheet, we see that it is the first three who have widened a significant gap over the rest of the pack led by a Jonathan Rhea punited, since more than seven tenths late. A snub for a six-time official driver title Kawasaki.

WSBK Superbike Indonesia FP2: times