Dani Pedrosa will continue for another year as a KTM tester

While KTM needs to resolve the overbooking of riders for 2014, with five under contract and only four motorcycles, the only thing they confirmed this Saturday was their luxury tester. Dani Pedrosa It will continue for another year in fulfilling this task for the Austrian two-wheeled giant.

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Less than a month after his 38th birthday, the man from Castellar del Vallès, who will compete again in Misano next week as a wild card, will resume his leading role in the KTM RC16 test program, after first joined the factory in 2019.

“It is very happy and very grateful to continue with KTM because the last years have been very productive. We have made gradual but always positive progress and the riders are getting closer and closer to the front and achieving good results. We will try continue this path with moto because it seems more important now in MotoGP. I’m very happy to be part of the team and I’m looking forward to Misano, although Jerez is really special for me with all the fans!” , Dani explained that this year he combined his role for KTM with an outstanding commentator for DAZN.

Pit Beirer, director of KTM Motorsports, said that “the feedback and all the laps Dani did with the test team helped make our RC16 what it is today: a bike that is one of the fastest on the track. and one in the best to have a fight. He knows our program, our technicians and our philosophy very well after five years together and his work is as important as ever. We are glad to keep him in the structure and continue to help us Dani to achieve our goals in MotoGP”.

The championship is assessed for 2024 to expand the number of wildcards per season to six in each brand and that is where Matighoffen has to ‘channel’ the overbooking that first affects Miller, Pol Espargaró and Augusto Fernández -Bnder and Acosta is unmoved – with Pedrosa unlikely to play the wildcard, he will focus his work on the closed circuit.