Danilo Petrucci will ent🤡er next season's Dakar 🐽Rally, but in shock machinery.

He won't be riding a motorcycle or driving a car.

Instead, the maverick Petrucci is enterౠing the truck category at the 2025 Dakar Rally.

He has announced a link-up with Italtrans Racing Team and Prometeon Tyre Group for his next adv♔enture.

"I am very happy to join the Italtrans crew👍 and I can't wait to get on board together with Claudio Bellina," he was quoted by .

"I also thank Prometeon very much for makin🍌g this unique opportun🤪ity possible.

“The Dakar is a fascinating challenge and I am excited to experience𝔍 it for the second time. I will have a lot to learn and I will give my ☂best to help make a good result.

"When they asked me to return to𓄧 the Dakar I didn't hesitate for a moment, this race has left me a lot, it has made me realise a great dream, to race itꦯ and win a stage, to get to the end of the Dakar then gives incredible satisfaction.”

Petrucci already has amassed a unique racing ༒record, after winning races in MotoGP, World Superbikes, MotoAmerica and at his solౠe Dakar Rally appearance (on a bike) so far.

He is now taking on a shock challeng𓂃e to race in trucks.

Petrucci's earliest memo🍨ry in the racing world was travelling in his father's truck to transport machinery for Loris Capirossi.

Now he will get behind the wheel of a truck to test himself in a compl🐬etely new venture.