This is the latest rumor gathered in the paddock and, if it is confirmed, it would have a small effect. So, KTM would have succeeded in convincing Dani Pedrosa to become its flagship test driver alongside Mika Kallio. For the Mattighofen factory, it would be a big blow, and a well-played strategic game, to, for example, begin to mark out the route of a certain Marc Marquez towards RC16…
Because we will remember the declarations of the leaders of the Austrian brand who did not hide from such a strategy. A Pedrosa within the walls, it is a know-how and a guarantee capable of reassuring the current Honda rider who knows very well what the Spaniard can bring to the development of a motorcycle.
The charm of Mike leitner would therefore have played, he who served Pedrosa under the Honda awning, while with a Johann zarco as an active rider, and a Tech3 team as a satellite, the KTM adventure would start to look great.
Certainly, but be careful all the same. Dani Pedrosa is experiencing his worst season in MotoGP, He has already turned his back on his projects and the Yamaha Petronas team has suffered so much that its managers have not hidden their disappointment. Furthermore, on the test pilot side, the morphology of Dani Pedrosa does not refer, and Cal Crutchlow has already assessed that a Bradl, whom he hardly likes, is better in this mission than a Pedrosa, who had an offer from his current employer to be the test man.
