Before hostilities begin for this third meeting of the MotoGP season, the organizers of the Grand Prix of the Americas claimed work carried out on their Austin route. Enough to remove the bumps, the subject of growing criticism as each edition goes by. We therefore leveled using a particular process which has been put forward. Apparently wrongly, judging by the comments of official Honda riders…
At Texas lunch time, Marc Márquez et Dani Pedrosa spoke about their first free practice session, and in particular about the revised and corrected bitumen of their playing field: “ the track is slippery » announces the one who has never been defeated in Austin. “ The bumps are still there, and it's even worse than last year. This makes things more difficult and tricky. We need to determine the best trajectories to take and find the best possible pace. ».
For Dani Pedrosa, this situation is all the more damaging as his convalescing wrist is particularly handicapping him: “ this bitumen doesn't help me. There's no grip and it's dusty. The work they did did not erase the bumps while the grip reduced ».
« As for my wrist, the pain I felt was expected, but I was hoping for more strength. We'll see during the second session. If the pain is the same, we can consider continuing but if it is worse... »
21rd four seconds behind his teammate, Pedrosa will make a new assessment of his condition after FP2 which begins…