KTM is about to take down its Pedrosa card

At the end of his convalescence, the former HRC rider should participate in the MotoGP tests in Barcelona on Monday, the day after the Catalan GP. Pol Espargaro and Johann Zarco rely on his experience and persuasiveness to refine the bike of the official KTM team… Explanations.

After a few private runs on the handlebars of the KTM RC16 at Mugello then in Brno, Dani Pedrosa is due to take part officially this Monday, June 17, 2019 in the MotoGP tests on the Barcelona circuit, after the .

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, the former Marquez teammate at Honda will bring a fresh take on the KTM of Pol Espargaro and Johann Zarco, respectively 10th and 16th in the championship.

It is in any case the hope of KTM, which counts a lot on this major asset to progress in its development … "It was very gratifying to see Dani driving at Mugello, it means that his shoulder is well recovered and that ‘he’s almost ready to start his new job for us,’ says Mike Leitner, team manager of the official KTM MotoGP team..

"When Dani says something, people take it very seriously"

"We can see that the level of the 2019 championship is very high, so the experience and knowledge that Dani will bring to the service of the team and the technicians at the plant will help us even more", continues the Austrian manager who, so far could only count on the feedback of former Yamaha riders (Pol Espargaro, Bradley Smith, Johann Zarco and Hafizh Syahrin)…

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The contribution of a former official Honda rider should therefore give valuable information to KTM engineers, especially as Dani Pedrosa’s experience (18 seasons in Grand Prix including 13 in MotoGP, a world champion title in 125 and two titles in 250!) gives his words a certain weight … not to say a certain weight.

"Dani will help us to approach races as a winning team", said Pol Espargaro in particular: "he himself spent several years in a winning team and he can make us achieve things that we do not. wouldn’t have thought. When he talks, everyone takes him very seriously and when he says something isn’t working people immediately understand that something isn’t working! They trust him and the pressure builds up. ‘a step up when Dani is there "…

"It’s cool to get back in the saddle", has for the moment been content to declare Dani Pedrosa, "happy" to have ridden "a lot of laps despite still a little pain".

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