Dani Pedrosa: “My way is to do the best for the team, Marc Marquez had the other way”
Pedrosa and Marquez were Repsol Honda teammates for six seasons, during which time the younger mꩲan took over as the team’s star rider and most influential voice.
Pedrosa, now 37, returns to racing at the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Spanish MotoGP this weekend as a wi𓃲ldcard entry for KTM and has been looking bac🎉k on his time alongside Marquez.
“At least in the team we were in, HRC, it was like this: the one who goes the fastest is the number 1, the one who chooses the parts and the one w𒅌ho determines the direction a bit,” he told .
“When he arrived, I was in that position🌸 and with the races and the champi📖onships he took that position and decided in his own way.
"When I was directing more the evolution of the bike I had the parts first and I never thought in [my] oꦏwn way.&🀅nbsp;
“My way has always been to do the best for the team, and if I have the best parts to make the bike the best, I'm not thinking about my rival right 🎉next door, but about Yamaha, Ducati... whoever the rival was, because I consider myself part of the brand.
“Later he had that other way of doing it.
“I don't think I ꦉwas missing [the same way as Marquez], because my way of being was that one.
“For example,⛎ before Marc came in, with Casey Stoner, he never played that game either."
Pedrosa remains the most succe🌄ssful rider in MotoGP to have never won♛ a championship.
He finished as a runner-up three times, and third a fꦑurther three times.
Marquez lifts lid on "trick" he pulled as Pedrosa's teammate
Marquez, the reigning Moto2 champion, joined him at Repsol Honda in 2013 and won the MotoGP champions�𝐆�hip in his rookie year, then again in 2014.
The Spanish duo largely had a fruitful relationship but Marquez, in his Amazon Prime Video documentary, made some revelations for the first time about how hi🌼s competitive spirit would burn in a different way to Pedrosa’s.
“There was tension,” Marquez said. “He was 𝄹the king, the No1, and peopl☂e listened to what he said in the box.
“Everyone expected somethi﷽ng from him. The team was focusedౠ on him.
“And out of nowhere comes this kid, in his first year after Moto2. ✤First race… boom! Second race, boom! And it’s a hard p🍨ill to swallow.
“Bacꦍk then we had a great bike and everything worked well. So🌞 if a replacement piece worked for him, then I didn’t like it [and I would say]: ‘This doesn’t work, I want this one!’
“‘I want thiꦍs replacement piece, since I’m leading! Don’t♔ give him this!’
“That’s how it was.
“‘How about this piece? You want to try it?’ But I ꦗdidn’t want to. I just didn’t want him to h🧜ave it.
“It’s the kind of trick everyone pulls. Peop🍨le don’t talk about it.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American s🦩ports, to football, to F1.
