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Danilo Petrucci recalls participation in Dakar 2022: ‘It was like when elephants leave the herd’

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May 3, 2025
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In 2022, in a surprising and completely unexpected move, Danilo Petrucci embraced the challenge of competing in the Dakar – stepping away from asphalt racing with no prior preparation, joining a project with KTM Tech3.

The challenge was considerable for the Italian, especially as he got injured just weeks before and knew little to nothing about rally raids. But he didn’t shy away from trying and even won a stage before crashing and retiring. Petrucci recalled that adventure in an interview with the podcast La Merenda:

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– Doing the Dakar was like when elephants leave the herd, or like those who face the Camino de Santiago. I didn’t know anything about the race and didn’t know anyone. A month earlier I had broken my ankle and everyone was worried about me. They were advising me to take it easy to avoid falling, which later happened. However, before retiring, I won a stage.

Petrucci also shared how he experienced that victory in the fifth stage of the 2022 Dakar: ‘I found out I had come in first on the route that took me to the bivouac, which was 160km of highway. I was completely alone and, at that moment, I realized I had done something historic. That moment reminded me of when, as a child on the way to school, I used to force my mother to buy me all the motorcycle VHS tapes at the newsstand. I would go home and watch them, dreaming of winning, and that day had finally arrived. I celebrated alone and it was like someone reaching the top of Mount Everest with no one around to take their picture’.

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