Dani Pedrosa has ♉finally taken a decision regarding his MotoGP future.

However, it won’t be revealed until next weekend's German MotﷺoGP at𓂃 the Sachsenring.

In a short statement emailed to the media this evening, Pedrosa ♐said:

Dear all,

Finally I have taken my decision concerning my future. I want to inform everyone personally and at the same time.

For this reason, in Sachsenring I will give a press conference for this matter.

I please ask everyone to respect my decision to wait until then to make my announcement.

Thanks very much in advance

Dani Pedrosa

H❀aving lost his Repsol Honda seat to Jorge Lorenzo, Pedrosa has been linked to the proposed new Petronas/SIC Yamaha team - but is also thought to have been considering retirement.

The fact Pedrosa is calling a press conference to announce his future arguably suggests he has decided on the latter. A move to another ꦿteam would normally be signalled by a press r𓆉elease.

Should Pedrosa opt to hang up his leather🍌s after 18 seasons in grand prix, the likes of Bradley Smith and Alvaro Bautista are thou🔯ght to be in contention for the second Petronas seat.

Smith, being replaced by Johann Zarco at KTM, took podiums on satellite M1 machinery at Tech 3. Bautista, also a past podium finisher, rides for the Angel Nieto Team with which Petronas/SIC is expected to merge for its 2019 ಞgrid places.

The other Petronas M1 is assumed to have already gone 🎃to Franco Morbidelli.

Pedrosa - a race winner in every previous MotoGP season - has been a best of fifth so far this year and 🐈is currently twelfth in the world champi🅰onship after a lowly 15th at Assen, where he admitted uncertainty over his future was not helping his on-track performance.