Dani Pedrosa KTM test rider in MotoGP 2019
Dani Pedrosa will finally stay in MotoGP next year! Ousted by Jorge Lorenzo alongside Marc Marquez at HRC, the n ° 26 will ride as a development driver at KTM with Johann Zarco and Pol Espargaro as official drivers. Explanations.
Dani Pedrosa, 33, will therefore not take a full pension in 2019 … but the handlebars of the KTM as a development rider for two years! He will return to this post, renewed next year, while Johann Zarco and Pol Espargaro will be the official drivers of the manufacturer, alongside Miguel Oliveira and Hafizh Syahrin on the KTM satellite Tech 3.
- MNC special file :
- MNC Live :
"Thanks Dani"
"Having a rider of Dani’s caliber and experience in our MotoGP project is a new signal that shows that we are moving in the right direction and that we are ready to throw all our strength into the battle", warned the Director of Motorsport at KTM, above with Dani Pedrosa.
“We have seen this year how high the level of MotoGP was and how a few fractions of a second could hide real progress,” continues Pit Beirer: “we hope that the contributions of Dani Pedrosa with Mika Kallio will be positive for our two teams (four motorcycles, Editor’s note) and will allow them to get even closer to the outposts. Thank you Dani, it’s great that he believes in it and that he trusts us ".
- MNC of 12 October 2007 :
Mike Leitner, team manager of the KTM team in MotoGP – who knows Pedrosa very well for having been his chief mechanic at HRC! -, is pleased to have "succeeded in concluding this agreement with Dani, because thanks to all his years of success in MotoGP, I think that he will considerably help us to carry out our project by developing the motorcycle".
This summer in Austria, KTM had again requested to replace the development driver Mika Kallio, during the German GP.
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