Dani Pedrosa is experiencing ‘déjà vue’ at Misano where this is his third wild card since 2019 he began his work as a test pilot for KTM. At Jerez, he went straight into Q2, qualifying sixth on the grid and then in two races he was sixth in the Sprint and seventh in the GP Race. There he noticed the lack of competition more, but he signed two positions that drivers from his old home already wanted. He had a weekend at the Spanish GP where he was the most applauded and although at Misano he was treading Ducati territory he continued to attract plaudits.
“The truth is I don’t know what to expect, it’s only Friday, obviously, we’re racing at the home of Ducati, there are Italian riders who are all motivated for the weekend and my goal is to go to Q2, try the qualifying tire and we did well. And, in general, the team is very happy, because we rode well both in the first practice and in the second. Today we will try to experiment in qualifying, which is shorter, only 15 minutes , then the sprint race, where you have a start, first lap and you have to warm up the tires well,” commented Pedrosa.
About what Marc Márquez time at his own wheel and not after that of any of the regular drivers in the world championship, Dani explained that “it was a moment… they told me, that it was seen on TV, that we were going together. Siya ” He used his weapons, which is now to follow the wheel, we have seen it in many Grand Prix and it happened that he chose me.”
“In general, I was focused on my thing and pushing to find my feelings with the soft tires and I knew that I was behind and that he managed to make a good lap on me, he made a good lap , because even if you are following someone, not everything is finished, the bike keeps making mistakes and you have to do the lap, not only by following the lap you will get it,” commented the rider who will be 38 on September 29.
Regarding Márquez’s behavior at the end of the session when they were practicing at the start, he emphasized that “we are talking about an eight-time world champion, he is certainly not casual and if you are praised by an eight times World Champion, it’s something beautiful.”
Regarding his personal performance, “the classification is important, the times are very tight and it is very easy to make a mistake when you are pulling, lose a little brake and lose a tenth or half a tenth that can affect you three or four positions. , so the first thing is to try to make the classification as efficient as possible.”
Among the things to improve on KTM, Dani Pedrosa explained that “there are some races where it’s still difficult for our bike to go through the curves and that’s one of the hardest things to improve, because you don’t want to lose of the brake. or you don’t want to lose acceleration. We are trying to work a little on everything since if you only have a corner passage, then you cannot overtake drivers, it is a bit of a delicate compromise and our drivers have their preferences. Binder really likes to brake hard, brake late, So you can never take away braking performance because he doesn’t want it, he doesn’t want it.”
Source: La Verdad
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