Honda: Pedrosa can still be champion

Dani Pedrosa's defeat to rookie team-mate

Marc Marquez in the 2013 MotoGP campaign does not mean he now has no

hope of winning a championship, Honda insists.


 


 


This year had previously been billed by Honda as a 'now or never' campaign for Pedrosa, who had ended 2012 in scintillating form and started the season as one of the favourites.



He led the championship seven rounds in but missed the German Grand

Prix after crashing in practice at the Sachsenring and breaking his

collarbone.



Marquez won in his absence, taking the points lead in the process,

before storming to four more wins and the title in his rookie season.



Pedrosa, finished the year third, behind Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo, but

team boss Livio Suppo believes circumstances - including race-ending

contact with Marquez at Aragon - conspired against him.



"Unfortunately Dani has been very unlucky," he said. "With almost no

crashes this season he got injured in one of the few at the Sachsenring,

and then due to no fault of his own he had the DNF in Aragon.



"Without these two races - where I believe he could have won, or at

worst finished second - it's easy to see he would have also been

fighting for the title in Valencia.



"Still his potential remains very high and we are sure that next year he will remain in the title fight."



HRC chief Shuhei Nakamoto, who made the claim at the start of the

year that Pedrosa would either open the floodgates in 2013 or never win

the title, agrees that the Spaniard was blameless for the incidents that

derailed his title bid.



"Before Dani had the accident at Sachsenring he was in very good

shape but afterwards, he was unable to physically fight for the

victories," he added.



"Then also there was the Aragon incident, which was very unfortunate.

Without the accidents, then Dani would have been fighting to the end

with Jorge and Marc for sure."


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and pigs might fly !!

The only way Dani is winning the title next year is if MM and JL take each other out for the season in Qatar next year. Or if Bautista punts them both in a spectacular combo attack.

rezonator636

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The only way Dani is winning the title next year is if MM and JL take each other out for the season in Qatar next year. Or if Bautista punts them both in a spectacular combo attack.

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My thoughts exactly.

chopperman

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The only way Dani is winning the title next year is if MM and JL take each other out for the season in Qatar next year. Or if Bautista punts them both in a spectacular combo attack.

My thoughts exactly.

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My thoughts exactly too

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rezonator636

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The only way Dani is winning the title next year is if MM and JL take each other out for the season in Qatar next year. Or if Bautista punts them both in a spectacular combo attack.

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For DP to be 2014 champ the fates would have to align thusly: 1) MM injures himself badly enough to be out for 2-3 rounds and 2) Honda have a crushing technical dominance over Yamaha that even Lorenzo can't bridge.


 


Not likely, but not impossible either...

hagbard

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For DP to be 2014 champ the fates would have to align thusly: 1) MM injures himself badly enough to be out for 2-3 rounds and 2) Honda have a crushing technical dominance over Yamaha that even Lorenzo can't bridge.


 


Not likely, but not impossible either...

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The new fuel regs could cause that dominance next season. Lin Jarvis expressed a fair degree of displeasure about that new fuel Limit. When Julian Ryder pointed out that is was the manufactures who had asked for the rule. Lin said "yes but that rule was attached to something else. That never happened so to bring in the new fuel reg is pointless and unwanted".  What Lin meant buy "attached to something else" i don't know, but i would sure be interested in what that statement meant?

chopperman

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The new fuel regs could cause that dominance next season. Lin Jarvis expressed a fair degree of displeasure about that new fuel Limit. When Julian Ryder pointed out that is was the manufactures who had asked for the rule. Lin said "yes but that rule was attached to something else. That never happened so to bring in the new fuel reg is pointless and unwanted".  What Lin meant buy "attached to something else" i don't know, but i would sure be interested in what that statement meant?

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I wonder if the reduction in fuel capacity was originally supposed to be tied to some kind of reduction in engine size, although I doubt Dorna would ever go that way again. But you're right, Dani is so tiny he may as well be a horse jockey. These rules may play into his favor...


 


Ah, who are we kidding. It's Pedrosa, after all. He's probably going to highside in Jerez after Marquez breathes on him too hard and break his collarbone in eighteen places. 

Pedrosa couldn't win Moto2 championship these days.

If Pedrosa wins this year it will be because Marquez gets injured and the Yamaha is noncompetitive. 


Very unlikely... but he'll still be fighting for wins here and there

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If Pedrosa wins this year it will be because Marquez gets injured and the Yamaha is noncompetitive. 


Very unlikely... but he'll still be fighting for wins here and there

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That pretty much describes every season of his career. The only thing missing is the broken collarbone.