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| Dani Pedrosa ahead of Catalunya |
Dani Pedrosa is getting ready to ride this weekend at his home Grand Prix with a number of painkillers
in an effort to overcome his hip injury and not disappoint his home crowd.
For Dani Pedrosa the winner of the 2008
Catalunya race and the home crowd favourite, it requires a tough character who knows how to get results when riding at less
than 100% fitness, Pedrosa will be required to use all his resilience this weekend as the Spaniard attempts to keep the fans
happy at Montmeló despite his hip injury.
The Repsol Honda rider explained
his current situation leading up to the Gran Premi Cinzano de Catalunya on Thursday having suffered a small fracture to his
right femur, the injury is where the bone and hip muscles join, Pedrosa sustained this in practice at Mugello, where he later
crashed out of the race.
“The pain really just depends on the moment and the movement,” added the Catalan
star. “Where I have the fracture, where the gluteus muscle connects with the bone, it hurts when I use that muscle.
When I had the painkilling injections at Mugello they didn’t help so I am really interested to see if the more powerful
injection I’ll have on Friday will do the job and help to calm the inflammation.”
Dani Pedrosa also commented on his plan as to how to approach the weekend he said, “My aim is to go out and see
how it feels. I mean, in Mugello I was able to ride with this injury, so even though things didn’t go well there I hope
to do better this time. We will have to get on with the job here with the painkillers. I am riding injured like in Qatar but
I want to do much better than there because the result wasn’t good. I have lots of fans here and I don’t want
to let them down.”
Dani Pedrosa also talked about the new chassis and
that he prefers to examine the new chassis during practice on Friday and Saturday, rather than wait for Monday’s scheduled
MotoGP test.
“I think it’s better to try the new chassis during
the weekend because I’ll be riding with painkillers and I might not be in the best shape to test on Monday,” he
said.
Meanwhile, in other news as one of the safety activities conducted by
Montesa Honda, S.A , a Honda subsidiary in Spain that is responsible for the production and sales of motorcycles,Dani Pedrosa,
will display the Honda’s Safety logo on the fairing of his bike throughout the Gran Premi Cinzano de Catalunya weekend,
just as he did at the earlier round in Spain at Jerez in May.
