Danilo Petrucci described Friday’s MotoGP track action in Argentina as “my worst since joining the [factory] Ducati team” as the Italian suffered a crash and struggled to the 13^th fastest lap time.

The 28-year old admitted he had gone in the wrong set-up direction in free practice and struggled with the Termas de Rio Hondo Ci🐻rcuit’s infamous lack of grip.

“Sincerely at the moment it's my worst day since I joined the Ducati team,” he sa⛦id, 0.559s off the top. “But I𒉰 made a mistake this morning trying to push as much as possible and maybe the track was not ready and I crashed because there was not so much grip.

“This afternoon I recovered time but at the end we went in a direction with the set-up, I crashᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚed so we come back and now we are following again t🥀hat direction.

“So at the end we lost the first session, we lost time and especially a couple of tyres and this is⛎ maybe a probleꦏm for tomorrow morning to have a good lap time to maybe try two new sets of tyres.

“We'll see. I'm not happy but I'm confident that we can 🐻recover the time and stay more close to the front.”

What happened with the crash? “[It was] Very, ver🦹y strange because the front locked and this happened when you don’t have a lot of grip꧃ on the track.

“We used the experience of last year, we are not far from tܫhe set-up of last yeꦚar, but at the end of the weekend and at the moment the track is improving lap by lap so maybe the track was not ready for that set-up yet.

“I braked and crashed when I was almost straig♍ht. Then I lost the feeling. We have to change set-up. So a lot of things.

“For sure a crash is very difficult to digest, especially at the beginning of the weeken🔜d when you have to check everything.”

Petrucci’s struggles were a contrast to t💃he speed shown by Andrea Dovizioso (first) and Jack Miller (second). In the #9’s eyes, the speed of the other GP19s was a positive.

“This is good b🃏ecause I'm still wearing the suit because I was watching the data from Jack and D🍌ovi and the difference is not so big but in some parts there are some differences.

“For sure I made a mistake in my flying lap that cost me at least twℱo tenths💟, but anyway we will try to enter the top ten tomorrow morning.

“I was so unlucky when I crashed I cam𒈔e to the pits, switched bikes and the 𓆏second bike had a problem so I lost also the last three or four laps of the morning. And in fact I lost the first session.

“This is a problem but in the second session we recovered, stayed more close to the front so I'm quitღe positive about tomo𓆉rrow.”