Danilo Petrucci got a taste of what to expect as a factory Ducati rider ne𒁃xt season when he was handed an extensive range of new parts to try at🌜 Monday's Catalunya MotoGP test.

With the official Ducati🅘 team of Barcelona race winner Jorge Lorenzo and team-mate Andrea Dovizioso skipping th💯e test, Petrucci was the only GP18 rider on track - and got to try new exhausts, a new gearbox, new chassis and new swingarm!

Some were parts the factory team had already tried - "I think Lorenzo has this exhaust, and maybe Dovi" - but others, such as the swingarm, were being used for thཧe first time.

Unfortuꦚnately, Petrucci's test was cut two-hours short when a lowside at Turn 9 ended with the🍸 Italian rolling heavily through the gravel trap.

That occurred on his 41st lꦏap, while trying the s🍌wingarm.

"I think the swingarm, Iꦿ was the first rider to try and the first to crash!" Petucci said.

His humour was all the more admirable given he was clearly battered ♌by the accident.

"It was a lowside at Turn 9. But 🔴when I arrived at the gravel, there is always a little step between the grass and the gravel, and I start to go round, round, 🐟round, and at that moment I felt some pain in my finger.

"Th𓃲en I started to feel very very bad with my feet, but no fractures, so that's important, even if my foot is getting bigger and bigger, and the Clinica Mobile suggested a CAT scan for the tendon. But it's OK, nothing serious. I hope.

"It was a bit of a shame, because I was trying the new swingarm. Still we have to compare it with the old one, but this morning was so useful, because I tried one set of new exhꦛausts, ⛎a new gearbox, new chassis.

"Some were old things that the Ducati factory team already has, but I found some interesting things, and we will 🅠see if I receive this stuff.🥂"

Indeed, with three GP18 riders to supply, each requiring three of each part (one for each of rider's two bikes, plus a sꦡpare), Petr𒈔ucci doesn't know if or when he will get to race the upgrades.

"It's not my choice. Du♊ca✤ti are working so hard, and I don't know at the moment if I will receive them. I would like to, sincerely, because the gearbox and the exhaust especially make the exit of the corner very, very smooth.

"It's something whi𝄹ch me and Lorenzo have been asking for, for more than one year, because in the middlཧe of the corner we need the engine more smooth."

Pressed further on the new gearbox, Petrucci𓄧 explained:

"The torque, when you release the brake and 💖take the throttle, it's mo♌re smooth.

"Because when you brake, the torque [from the gearbox] is negative, then you take the throttle and🐈 the torque starts to be positive, and in that point it's more smooth, which means that the bike moves less in the middle of the corner, and slides less."

Petrucci had then completed '7 or 8' laps with the new swingarm, whജen the accident occurred.

"I'm so sorry, because it was my first test to try new things for the Ducati factory, and the most ♏important thing, (the swingarm) I crashed with.

"But we can already see the difference, and we had tested the mꦍajority of the things, but unfortunately I crashed and missed the last tꦯwo hours, because it was in our mind to finish at four o'clock.

"Fortu❀nately I'm OK. And I am hap𒁏py, because I was even quite fast."

Despite the 🌳premature end, Petrucci's best lap was good enough for fourth overall on the timesheets, 0.572s ꦯfrom Honda's Marc Marquez.

And although Lorenzo has grabbed all the headlines wit✨h victories at the last two rounds, it is his 2019 replacement Petrucci who is now the leading Ducati rider in the world championship, in fifth overall.

"In the champဣionship, I'm the first Ducati, but in the la🍌st two races, Lorenzo made the difference.

"At the moment we do☂n't know how it's possible that Lorenzo stops the bike betteꦯr than me and Dovizioso.

"But the problem yesterday is that I overheated the front tyre when I wa❀s behind Pedrosa.

"Assen is a 💞different track, 🔜different temperature, so we'll see.

"Maybe we will have this problem i🦩n another circuit, but it's the first time we have this problem with the front tyre."

Petrucci's team-mate Jack Miller also believes Lorenzo's braking ability - despite a 'collapsing' feeling from the soft compound front tyre brought to the Catalunya weekend - 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:was the key to Sunday's success.