MotoGP, after Dani Pedrosa's performance, Marco Melandri concludes: "I am convinced that the KTM has much more potential than what the factory riders manage to demonstrate"

Marco Melandri partly confirms this, by sending his test rider Dani Pedrosa, who is also an official Grand Prix Legend, KTM perhaps did not think that it could possibly do more harm than good. However, the objectives were achieved with this validation of the carbon chassis, a new approach for those who have always supported the tubular steel frame. Which should satisfy everyone in Mattighofen. But Dani Pedrosa also succeeded in his mission too well by putting his famous teammates under the extinguisher, to the point of saving it at the end of a San Marino Grand Prix which would have ended with a much meager points harvest. . Suddenly, and inevitably, the debate arose on the current level of MotoGP that illustrious veterans seem to be able to dominate during a freelance...

A subject which torments, of course, the said generation which has been replaced, which could give it ants in the right wrist in order to raise this question which has just arisen in MotoGP: would another of its pilots be able to take on such a feat, one weekend, by the way? Or Dani Pedrosa Is it like good wine, whose reputation is for getting better with time?

Marco Melandri: “ I don't agree with those who say that the level of MotoGP is low »

Public chat Instagram, Marco Melandri attempts to analyze what happened in Misano with Dani Pedrosa by sparing the goat and the cabbage: “ I do not agree with those who say that the level is low. It is true that Pedrosa's performance may suggest this, but we must take into account the fact that Misano is a perfect track for him. Furthermore, he did not have no pressure ».

Certainly, but he cannot help but add, almost contradicting himself: “ I am convinced that the KTM has much more potential than the factory riders manage to demonstrate ". A greater potential than Dani Pedrosa knew how to update, while he discovered aerodynamics, its effects in the peloton, and the latest electronics, mastering without the slightest problem all these essential and new parameters for a pilot of the old generation... Rest that the general feeling is that the youngest regular drivers of the Pierer Mobility AG group took a spanking from their elder in Misano, not to mention the others.