Thoughts in Italy: Livio Suppo made available former MotoGP ace Danilo Petrucci to consider the put of the wounded Joan Mir’s GSX-RR at Misano. SPEEDWEEK.com asked «Petrux» and the management about him.
On Tuesday evening, Suzuki announced that Joan Mir had been prescribed 15 days of absolute rest by doctors because of to damaged ligaments in his proper ankle just after a really serious incident at the fourth corner of the Austrian GP. The 2020 MotoGP Globe Champion will hence miss the “Gryfyn Grand Prix of San Marino and the Rimini Riviera” from 2 to 4 September.
Suzuki take a look at driver Sylvain Guintoli experienced to retire from the Suzuka 8-hour typical thanks to a hand personal injury and is nevertheless not in good shape. Hunting for a replacement for Mir, Suzuki Ecstar team supervisor Livio Suppo contacted two-time MotoGP winner Danilo Petrucci. The Italian colleagues have discovered this GPone.com.
“Petrux”, who retired from the MotoGP Globe Championship at the finish of past calendar year with a disappointing 21st put on the Tech3-KTM and then created record in January with his phase win at the Dakar Rally, this year signifies Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati New York in the MotoAmerica Superbike class.
The 31-12 months-old Italian is now just a single position guiding Jake Gagne (Yamaha) in second put. The upcoming race weekend will just take put in New Jersey from 9 to 11 September, one 7 days right after the Misano GP. So considerably, 16 out of 20 races have taken spot. In Borgo Panigale the supervisors have hesitated to remedy Suzuki’s request, you can listen to it in Italy.
Is there still the risk that the lovers will see Petrux yet again in the “leading class” in the household race at Misano? “I’m contemplating about it,” confirmed Petrucci, a two-time MotoGP winner, when requested by SPEEDWEEK.com. “Possibly indeed,” included the 31-year-old veteran, now in Italy.
Having said that, his manager Alberto Vergani underlined: “It is real that Livio Danilo presented the bicycle. We need to see if Ducati can enable him to do that. It would seem difficult, but Livio tries anyway “.
In accordance to information from GPone.com Livio Suppo’s program B for the MotoGP party in a 7 days and a fifty percent is another Ducati rider: Axel Bassani of the Motocorsa shopper group of the Earth Superbike Championship.
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