Dani Pedrosa is a respected driver in the Grand Prix world. Always clean on the track, astride safety, to the point of giving in the shocking sentence like the blades of knives on the subject of Ducati wings, he is also an eternal second, a protagonist of a queen category that he has never conquered and a Honda resident since 2006. Which is a long time. Exactly…
From Red et Lorenzo, we know that a driver, however comfortable his life may be within a team in which he has won victories and titles, has the burning desire to go and see elsewhere if he can do at least as well. The two aforementioned went through Ducati and the path is strewn with pitfalls. However, there is nothing discouraging about it. The proof with Dani Pedrosa whose contract with HRC expires at the end of the 2018 season: “ASeeing elsewhere is always something that haunts you. I have always been someone who loves to learn and contribute to a project. When I participate in the development of a motorcycle, I have this feeling of being able to be useful ».
A sentence that sounds like a frustration experienced at Honda. And which then becomes clearer… “ I've been riding Hondas for years and have always found bikes that are pretty much similar. Which means that the problems have always been more or less the same. But hey, other than that, I'm happy in this team ».
Certainly, but the message got through. It will be noted that Dani Pedrosa is supported by the same sponsor who supports an Austrian team whose team manager is its former chief mechanic... But let's talk about the present. And this difficulty of living alongside Marc Márquez : " He is very competitive and very ambitious. It's a reference. Its negative points arise from its qualities. You have to fight against it and sometimes it's very hard ».
Currently, the championship is played between two acquaintances of Pedrosa : Márquez who is his current teammate and Dovizioso with whom he shared the HRC box from 2009 to 2011. On the latter, he comments: “ it's clear that Dovizioso is surprising us all this year. He did his job and we can all see that he did it well. Certainly, the Ducati is a different motorcycle now than it was before. But the merit of the results currently achieved goes as much to Ducati as to Andrea Dovizioso ».
