Danilo Petrucci feared penalisation was coming his way after contact in the WorldSBK Superpole Race at Magꦑny-Cours.

Petrucci ultimately finisജhed the weekend with three podium finishes and as the highest scorer from the round overall.

“I was a🦋lready really confident about this race, as this morning [in the Superpole Race] I was able to catch all the riders after starting from ninth and I finished third,” Petrucci told WorldSBK.com after Race 2.

“I expected to fight with Alex [Lowes] and Nicolo [Bulega] 𒆙this afternoon but I don’t kno𒐪w what happened to Alex on the first lap.

“ I was not able to follow Nicolo on t🌱heꦜ first two or three laps, then the gap remained the same.

“I tried to push all the way through, when I was catching maybe two or three tenths per lap to Nicolo, then the gap was faꦰding.”

“At the end I was suffering a bit with my right arm then there was Garrett [Gerloff] trying to catch me. It was not a difficult race, but it was difficult to manage🌠🦩 all the race because I was alone.

“In the end it is three podiums [in one weekend], which has never happened in my career. I think looking🦄 at the points I was the one who score💎d most this weekend.

“I’m really passionate about moto✃cross and if t🌌his was motocross I would have won the Grand Prix!”

(Most motocross series, such as MXGP, use a multi-race format like WorldSBK’s, with points scored in each race and the high🎀est scorer at the end of the final🍷 race declared the overall winner of the round.)

Petrucci’s Superpole Race podium came after a battle with Andrea Locatelli in the beginning. Twice Petrucci tried to pass his compatriot at the turn five hairpin; the first time Locatelli resisted on the outside, but the second time Petrucci’s Ducati was on the inside w🌊hen the Yamaha rider trieℱd to turn in.

The contact between the two caused Lo🌜cat🍨elli to crash, and Petrucci feared he would receive a penalty.

“The first thing I did after the celebration before heading to my garage wa🔯s I wಞent to [Andrea Locatelli’s] garage and he was a little bit upset,” Petrucci said.

“In that race I was on the inside, he tried to hold on and he just closed the co🅠rner when I was there and I was on the inside.

“I’m so ൲sorry because Loka really is a great guy and I’m so sorry that he crashed. I was thinking about the crash all the way after that and I thought I would be penalised but in the end fortunately the race direction made a good choice.”