It definitely wasn't Dani Pedrosa's weekend! After having had a complicated Friday then a disastrous Saturday, the Honda Repsol driver had an even worse Sunday.
It's been a long time since we last saw Dani Pedrosa so many difficulties. Always outside the top 10 during testing, whether Friday or Saturday, he crashed in FP4, damaging his bike. Forced to take second which did not have the same settings for qualifying, he was unable to escape to take part in Q2, and on the contrary qualified only twentieth.
The Spanish rider has never qualified so far in MotoGP. His worst qualification, a sixteenth place, dates from the Turkish Grand Prix in 2006. You have to go back to his very first year in 125cc in 2001 to find a place even further than this in qualifying!
It was therefore a first for Pedrosa, and if he managed to finally find a good feeling during the Warm Up this morning, thus finishing eighth, this remained the only positive point of the weekend. Indeed, barely had the race started when he fell, taking Takaaki Nakagami with him.
This blank result closes an extremely complicated Grand Prix: “The weekend was very difficult, we encountered many problems to have a good feeling. It was only this morning that we were able to find a setting that gave me confidence. Unfortunately, I started from very far back on the grid, and that often increases the risks. My goal was to recover positions at the start. I passed a few riders but found myself parallel to Nakagami when I hit Bautista's rear tire and crashed, taking Takaaki away. I am really sorry. It's also a shame that I wasn't able to see how our settings were working, or how many places I would have been able to make up during the race. »
Italian Grand Prix Mugello MotoGP J.3: Ranking
1 99 Jorge LORENZO Ducati 41'43.230
2 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO Ducati +6.370
3 46 Valentino ROSSI Yamaha +6.629
4 29 Andrea IANNONE Suzuki +7.885
5 42 Alex RINS Suzuki +7.907
6 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW Honda +9.120
7 9 Danilo PETRUCCI Ducati +10.898
8 25 Maverick VIÑALES Yamaha +11.060
9 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA Ducati +11.154
10 5 Johann ZARCO Yamaha +17.644
11 44 Pol ESPARGARO KTM +20.256
12 55 Hafizh SYAHRIN Yamaha +22.435
13 53 Tito RABAT Ducati +22.464
14 38 Bradley SMITH KTM +22.495
15 21 Franco MORBIDELLI Honda +26.644
16 93 Marc MARQUEZ Honda +39.311
17 10 Xavier SIMEON Ducati +1'01.211
18 30 Takaaki NAKAGAMI Honda 5 Tours
Unclassified
41 Aleix ESPARGARO Aprilia 4 Tours
43 Jack MILLER Ducati 22 Tours
12 Thomas LUTHI Honda 22 Tours
Did not finish the first round
26 Dani PEDROSA Honda 0 Lap
17 Karel ABRAHAM Ducati 0 Tour
45 Scott REDDING Aprilia 0 Tour
