DaniloPetrucci

After a heroic hat-trick on home soil at Cremona in 2024, Danilo Petrucci heads into the 2025 season full of confidence and aiming for more race wins. Armed once again with the Panigale V4 R, ‘Petrux’ now has more experience under his belt and will be looking for even more success to add to his already impressive, and diverse, resume. He became the first rider to win in MotoGP™, WorldSBK, MotoAmerica, STK600, STK1000 and a stage of the Dakar Rally.

Ducati (2023-)

The #9 made his WorldSBK debut in 2023 with the Barni Spark Racing Team, reuniting with Marco Barnabo’s outfit after they almost won the 2011 STK1000 title together. It took a while for Petrucci to adapt to WorldSBK life with different tyres and tracks compared to his 2022 campaign in the USA, but he ended his season with three rostrums – at Donington Park and two at the Autodrom Most. He found another gear in his sophomore campaign with 10 podiums and three wins, becoming just the fourth rider to take a hat-trick in WorldSBK after Alvaro Bautista, Jonathan Rea and Toprak Razgatlioglu after his three wins at Cremona. It was even more magical when you remember that, just a few months prior, he suffered horrific injuries in a motocross training crash that required surgery on his jaw and shoulder, but Petrucci only missed one round and, despite fighting through the pain, took a superhuman sixth place at Misano on his return.

Before WorldSBK

Petrucci competed in STK600 and STK1000 as he rose through the ranks, with his impressive performances enough to earn him a ride in MotoGP™. He spent three years with the Ioda Racing Project and, despite less-than-ideal circumstances, showed enough to earn a move to Pramac Racing for 2015, where he remained until 2018, before he moved into factory Ducati colours for two seasons in 2019 and 2020, alongside Andrea Dovizioso, claiming an emotional first win on home soil at Mugello before taking victory the following year at a soaking wet Le Mans. One season on KTM machinery followed before he moved to MotoAmerica for one year – but not before an off-road adventure in the Dakar Rally, where he won a stage. His move to the USA was successful, winning two races and narrowly missing out on the title to Jake Gagne by just 20 points.