A podium at the WorldS🌞BK season opener in Australia seemed to be the perfect way to start 2025 for Danilo Petrucci, but on paper his results fell off slightly in Portimao.

At round two, the Barni Ducati rider – now in his third year of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike – was fourth i🐭n Race 1, behind Yamaha’s Andrea Locatelli, then fourth in the Superpole Race, and sixth in Rac🐎e 2 after a shocking start.

Petrucci ex💞plained that a problem when selecting first gear on the grid led to his poor start in Race 2.

“We had a problem,” he told WorldSBK.com. “Sincerely, we don’t understand what happened, but, when I p🦋ushed the lever to put first gear, the gear didn’t [engage] completely, so the launch control didn’t [engage].

“T🐬hen, when I released the clutch, second [gear] went immediately in because I pushed another time. So, let’s say half and half of mistakes, but then when you are 17th at the first corner you already know that your life will be really tough.”

He added that🦄, after the race was red-flagged on lap eight, he rode with a pre-heated rear tyre.

“I don’t know if the red flag has helpꦇed us because at the end I was quite close to [Michael] van der Mark and [Andrea] Locatelli in the first half of the race,” he said.

“Then, [after the red flag], I was really busy with the ot♋her riders, a good fight, but I was with a pre-heated tyre and the feeling was not really good, but ♔we had a good fight.”

Petrucci also said that he was disappointed to have lost his front row starting position in the Superpole Race to a late-charginღg Alvaro Bautist🐻a.

“Sincerely, a bit disappointed about [the Superpole Race] when I lost third place with A♏lva🧸ro [Bautista],” he said.

“At the end we have to look at the positive – we are third in the championship – but no trophy for me this time. Last year I went home with two, this tꦛime just the third place [in Superpole].”

The positive for Petrucci was that, despite missing the podium all weekend, he was still in contention for it when all of the other satellite Ducatis – who were there in the rostrum battle in Australia –🌺 were struggling.

“Exactly,” Petrucci sa♐id when the point was brought u🍷p to him.

“Maybe also coming here for two days of testing has been not 𝕴really good because we modified a lot the bike, especially on the electronics side, and tꦓhe track condition was really different [on the race weekend],” he added.

“So, at the end, we still don’t understand i🌳f it was better or not, but at the end we have been really close to Nicolo [Bulega] who at the moment is the reference.

“Sincerely, I would have li💝ke to have stayed in front 𒁃of Alvaro, but this morning he was faster than me and this afternoon too, then with the problem…

“But, at the end, if you have to look at the positive, we are always there and no mistake in the last lap, I almost cr💃ashed also, good points and looking forward to Assen.”