Danilo Petrucci, who managed to finish third after making a spectacular comeback in the race, crashed after crossing the line at Virginia International Raceway in Alton . Dismounting from his Ducati , the Italian crawled on the ground for more than 100 meters, a path in which he collided with three advertising panels, before being prone and half in shock.
According to his own testimony, Petrux remained on the ground for two minutes before being able to get up on his own feet and went to the facility’s medical center without assistance of any kind.
In a series of photos posted on his Twitter and Instagram profile, the former Ducati rider in the MotoGP world championship shows the consequences of that hair-raising romp, and denounces the lack of urgency of the assistance services that currently must be done charge of MotoAmerica.
As a result of the fall, the rider from Terni suffered considerable abrasions on his body, a severe bruise on his left arm and several bruises scattered throughout his body, as well as a gash in his ankle that required five staples.
Look at the photos published by Danilo Petrucci after his fall in MotoAmerica
“I rolled for about a hundred meters in one of the worst accidents of my life,” Petrucci described in the early hours of Sunday to Monday, after the race.
“I lay on the ground for two minutes, without anyone coming to help me and listening to how the motorcycles passed by me, until I got up myself and went, alone, to the clinic,” laments Petrucci, who despite All in all, he remains at the top of the general classification of the championship, with a four point advantage over the South African Mathew Scholtz (Yamaha) and 13 over the North American Jake Gagne (also Yamaha), the winner of the two heats in Alton.
