Dani Pedrosa has assured in this regard: «It has been very interesting to be part of the KTM project and to be able to share my experience with them. Step by step we have grown and it is interesting to play a race again because it gives you a different perspective than a normal test. It has been a long time since my last race and the mentality is very different from that of a test. My goal is to try to test some things on the bike in a race situation. I want to understand the requests that pilots may have. I can see the improvements on the bike, but to understand everything better we will do this ‘wild card’. It is difficult to talk about my expectations, but we will try to enjoy the weekend».
For its part, Mike leitner as KTM boss he added: «It will be curious to see Dani Pedrosa in MotoGP again. He has been away from racing for quite some time, but it will be valuable to have him in the box to analyze the strengths and not so strengths of our KTM RC16 in the race. Dani has had a great influence on our MotoGP project and it is clear that we can see some of his work in the current success of the RC16. It will have a mix of the current racing bike and some small updates and will do some testing over the weekend, but we don’t want to overload it either. We want you to enjoy».