Pedrosa will not punish
The Spanish Dani Pedrosa (Honda) said today on the MotoGP season ended this afternoon in Valencia: “I am satisfied, but I will not punish you for it.”
Pedrosa was second to Australian Casey Stoner (Ducati) at the Grand Prix of Valencia and ended 2008 with eleven podiums and third in the championship.
On today’s race said: “From the beginning, he (Stoner) it was very clear. I think it’s a great driver that makes the bike ready in no time and so little dry practice time I think it was a key point, otherwise has started to go one tenth per lap faster than me and started to march to the top and I could not get that tenth lap I needed. ” “Then again he seemed to engage, but he has responded and seemed to have a little leeway and was controlling the difference,” Pedrosa told reporters, adding: “It was better than I like me last year was better than him. “
He added: “Ultimately, a second place is good for everything that happened mid-season, then we are back to being competitive at all levels in both water and dry in training and in career and have won two recent runners-up to justify the change (Michelin tire Bridsestone) was fair and that was right.
Also revealed: “I’m a little disappointed not to get the win here in front of my fans, all the people who filled the stands and the colors that was the bike (a retro design of the sixties and seventies of the 40th anniversary of Repsol, its main sponsor), I think it was one of the nicest bikes I’ve ever seen and has been a pleasure to pilot. “
Commenting on the new tire regulations for 2009, there will be only a supplier, Bridgestone, considered: “Nobody knows anything about the tires next year.” “There will be few changes and will be the same for everyone. The important thing is to see how each bike, but that will be unknown until a try” he said. And on its re-branding in the middle of this season, said: “The tire change was when we could and that’s it. The change was right.”
Pedrosa said: “We have lost many times the pace this season I’ve had falls and injuries I’ve had. We have to be competitive again after the summer slump I had in the fall of Germany. Australia was the point we started to improve and in the last two we have won the top two, but we are confident, we have recovered a level that we had lost during the season because of injuries.
“The important thing is that now we are the new evidence and new tires at the rate of the first,” said the pilot of Barcelona, who added: “I feel like a little rest and recover from injuries and one hundred percent have time to train in November and December we’ll relax a little.