Former MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci believes his la🔜st 🦩two seasons in the premier class were spent with the wrong team at the wrong time. 

Petrucci, who is currently exceeding ex🐓pectations at the Dakar Rally after he became the first former MotoGP rider to w🤡in a stage, spent his last two Grand Prix years with Ducati and KTM.

The Italian’s last Mo෴toGP win came in 2020 after dominating a wet race in Le Mans, however, Petrucci struggled outside of that result asꦇ he managed just seven top ten results in 14 races.

His number of top ten finishes then decreased from seven to just three in 2021 as KTM se🐓emed to take a step back. 

But giv♒en the RC16 was one of the better packages to be on in 2020 and Ducati won the most races in 2021, Petrucci was with the right manufacturers but at the 𝕴‘wrong time’. 

Ducati took a huge step-forward in 2021 as Francesco Bagnaia, Jack Miller and Jorge Martin were arguably the three most in-form rideꦐrs to end the year. In particular Bagnaia who won four of the last six races, while also claiming five consecutive pole positions from Aragon to Portimao.

"Somehow I can't get rid of the feeling that I was in the wrong team at Ducati and KTM over the past two years, “ Petrucci told Speedweek.com.

Three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo is adamant that had he not suffered a Free Practice crash in Assen that left him with two broken vertebrae, then he would have likely continued beyond 2019 with Honda.&n꧑bsp;

Lorenzo said: Without a doubt, without that incident 𝔉I would have stayed with Honda. After Assen retirement became a possibility, bu🌜t I didn’t want to rush it and I delayed it for as long as possible.”