Danilo Petrucci did not 'notice any benefit' from Ducati's new part
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Ducati may have supplied Danilo Petrucci with a new exhaust but the Italian was not impressed.
At the Portimao World Superbike Test, Danilo Petrucci was able to test Ducati's newest developments. The latest part the Italian was given to try was a new exhaust, but Petrucci was left disappointed by it.
Petrucci did find there was a difference in power delivery with the new exhaust compared to the one he used in 2024. However, he did not notice any benefit in performance when comparing it to his old exhaust.
"Not a big difference," Petrucci told WorldSBK.com when speaking about the new exhaust.
"It was quite different about power delivery, but at the end I didn't notice any benefit.
"Other riders are using it since last year. Let's see for the race which exhaust we're going to use, but I think we will put the same as the factory team."
Like the rest of the grid, Petrucci and the Barni Spark Racing Team had a difficult time at Portimao. The weather in Portugal stopped the majority of the Championship from putting together proper testing programs.
"At the end it was not really a useful test, but at least yesterday we had the chance to ride in difficult conditions," Petrucci said following the two days in Portugal.
"You never know when you are here in Portugal, you can find always difficult conditions, so yesterday at least we had the chance to ride a bit – especially I always suffer a bit with the strong wind. So, for me, at the end we can take something from this test.
"But, in the second day, no laps for us – when we decide to go [out] it started to rain, then after a few minutes it stops; we decide to go with the rain, but the track was half-and-half; then [I was] hearing around that the track was really slippery, so we decided to not take any risks.
"Anyway, I'm quite relaxed about this because my bike is the same as last year, so we know which setup we have to use and – especially – we have two days in Australia, and those two days will be really important for the race after."
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