Dani Pedrosa doesn’t know what grade to get after his two quarters

Dani Pedrosa is one of the great contenders of the weekend in Misano-Adriatico with their two fourth places behind the three riders competing in the MotoGP World Championship, Martín, Bezzecchi and Bagnaia. Since his retirement at the end of the 2018 campaign, this is the third time he has returned to compete as a wild card, always at circuits where he worked as a tester. His speed is so devilish, at the level of the great stars and they are almost surprised to sneak onto the podium. He came close to it last Saturday in the Sprint and this Sunday he came close, but was unable to get the bike on the Bagnaia.

“I’m happy to be back and compete and perform well, but it’s not something I miss too much. I don’t know how to grade myself, but I’m pretty happy with the performance. I’ll give the team a good grade, because they worked very well , they adapted very well to the schedules, to the speed of the race, to the sprint… Without making mistakes on the bike and I tried to help them as much as possible by not falling and not making mistakes that could complicate things , so In general, we are all very happy,” explained Pedrosa.

“The feeling of the race is better today and at the end of the race I thought ‘this is the race’, by which I mean the sprint is an important result, because it gives points and can give you motivation , but The The real race is on Sunday, because it’s the long one. You have to manage, you have to manage… In general, that’s how I felt and I’m more nervous today than yesterday, I don’t know why, but yesterday in the beginning I was calmer and now since morning my stomach is a bit tight,” he commented.

Regarding a hypothetical new wild card and competing again this year, he barely ruled it out: “In general, I’m very happy, I’ve never enjoyed fourth place like today. I’m very happy, I won’t deny it, but everything has its time and I already have mine; we have a quarry that comes and now I enjoy the bikes more from the outside, and even though everything has been incredible, both in Jerez and here, I’m happy that way,” he stressed.

Now that he shares the tasks of a tester for KTM, a circumstantial competitor in both motorcycles and cars and a MotoGP commentator for DAZN, he points out about the future of Marc Márquez, that “it’s a very difficult answer to give, first, because I’m not Marc. I don’t know. I also don’t know how things happened all these years for them to be in the situation they’re in and only he knows that to make that decision. In any case, it was a very difficult decision. Considering that he is 30 years old… I can’t tell you. I can’t tell you what I would do, because I I’m not him, but I think he’s going to find a way to get back and put his future on the line. What’s he playing for?”