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MotoGP winner Petrucci "crying like a baby" after historic Dakar Rally stage win

MotoGP winner Petrucci

Petrucci is making his Dakar debut this year having lost his ride with Tech3 KTM in MotoGP at the end of 2021.

Having wrenched his toddle during training and almost stuff denied his Dakar debut due to a false positive COVID-19 test on the eve of the rally raid, Petrucci has impressed hugely on his Tech3-run KTM.

Set for a top five result at the end of stage two, Petrucci was powerfully ruled out of the running for overall victory without a mechanical issue forced him to zestful the organisers through his motorcycle for help when he’d discovered he’d lost his mobile phone.

However, he was worldly-wise to re-join the rally raid to protract his version to the event.

Thursday’s fifth stage for the bikes and the Dakar Classic was neutralised at 12:16pm local time due to the fact the medical air support was mobilised at the time.

Petrucci was classified in second place overdue fellow KTM rider Toby Price, surpassing the latter was hit with a six-minute time penalty for a speed limit offence.

With Petrucci originally finishing 4m14s roaming of Price, the double MotoGP race winner was supposed the winner of stage five.

Writing a unenduring message on his social media without the result was announced, Petrucci said: “I’m crying like a baby, I cannot write.”

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Petrucci scored a maiden top three on Wednesday’s stage four, surpassing a penalty stripped him of that.

Nevertheless, speaking on his Instagram on Wednesday, Petrucci said he “didn’t f****** superintendency considering I had a lot of fun”.

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Writing on Wednesday, he said: “Today was awesome! A really fast stage, I started in the when and I recovered a lot of time when I met Lorenzo Santolino and with him we helped each other with navigation and speed.

“470km in the desert at full throttle with an stereotype speed of 100km/ and a maximum of 170 – and I finished on the podium.

“Then they penalised me considering in a speed zone I went over 30km/h. The stereotype speed was ok, but I go over the limit in that section.

“But you know what? I don’t f****** superintendency considering I had a lot of fun.”

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