Covid is becoming a veritable sword of damocles for the participants of the Dakar 2022. From hour to hour, the list of pilots who risk having to give up even before taking off is getting longer.
And the last name that was added to the list is one of the heavy ones, because among those that turned out there is also Danilo Petrucci. The KTM rider, who is the first in history to attempt the direct jump from MotoGP to the Dakar, is still hoping for a second buffer, as it seems that there have been several false positives.
If the second PCR test were to confirm the positive result, however, for the rider from Terni the dream of a lifetime would have ended even before starting and it would be a great shame.
Among other things, in the last few hours Italy has already lost Eugenio Amos and Paolo Ceci, who should have shared the cockpit of an SSV, but were forced to raise the white flag due to the positivity of the former.
Even the motorcyclist Sara Garcia is grappling with the same situation as Petrucci, while the protagonist of the four wheels Erik van Loon was forced to surrender, giving the wheel of his Toyota to Bernhard Ten Brinke, who had already been pre-alerted to replace Giniel de Villiers, who, however, was negativized in extremis to leave for Jeddah.
Danilo Petrucci, KTM Factory Racing
Photo by: KTM Images
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