Pedrosa fond of British track after first day

The Silverstone track has now completed its first day of MotoGP free practice, in which the Repsol Honda Team riders, Andrea Dovizioso and Dani Pedrosa finished up in third and sixth place respectively. With a totally overcast sky threatening rain, the riders enjoyed almost sixty minutes of dry asphalt although a little more than three minutes from the end, the onslaught of the rain brought the free practice session to an end. Jorge Lorenzo was the fastest rider of the day.

For Dani Pedrosa, winner of the Mugello race, sixth best time in a day in which he preferred to play it safe. In a first reconnaissance, the Repsol Honda Team rider stated at the end of the session that the circuit, although he likes it very much, is especially full of potholes. Even so, Pedrosa exceeded 310 km/h on the short straights of the British track and, with a time of 2 minutes and 6.347 seconds, finished happy and was content with sixth place on the timesheets.

Dani Pedrosa, 2’07.586 sec, 21 laps, 124 km.
“It’s funny because there was a very precise forecast of rain to arrive at 2.50pm and that’s exactly when it came – with five minutes to go – so in fact we were very lucky to have most of the session with a dry track on our first visit to Silverstone. It’s quite good fun to ride at this circuit – and it’s also pretty bumpy. You can feel the difference between the old and the new parts of the track because the old sections are bumpy and slippery whereas the new sections are quite good. There are two or three very fast corners and some long straights, and obviously we’ve started with an approximation of the right gearing and we will need to adjust this a little bit. I think that the lap times will be very different tomorrow. At the beginning of the session we had a lot of traffic because everyone was checking the track. I didn’t really push today for a lap time – I preferred to check my braking points and get my bearings. The circuit was also quite dirty especially at the start of the session, but I think it will improve tomorrow and the times will come down a lot”.

Source: Repsol Media Service