Pedrosa: Maybe I wasn't fully concentrating...
Dani Pedrosa was just one lap away from completing the best performance of his young MotoGP career - having stormed from a lowly 16th place on the grid to lead the Turkish Grand Prix for five laps, only to fall while fighting for victory.
Battling with eventual winner Marco Melandri and second-place man Casey Stoner, Pedrosa started the last lap in third place, just a fraction behind the his fellow RCV riders, but lost the front end of his Repsol Honda in the downhill turn one - the scene of many of his overtaking manoeuvres. The 20-year-old remounted to finish 14th.
Pedrosa's mistake allowed team-mate Nicky Hayden to take the final podium position but - in contrast to Pedrosa, who was still just 13th at the end of lap one - Melandri, Stoner and Hayden were already in the top six on the opening lap.
"Until the last lap I think the race was good. I got a good start and recovered a lot of positions at the beginning. Then I got into a very good rhythm and I was able to overtake riders and catch the leaders, which was the main plan before the race," explained Dani,
who showed no signs of physical fatigue.
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Near the end it was difficult because I lost some time and there was a little gap to the leaders so I was not completely with them. Then I crashed as I was entering the first corner - maybe I had a little movement at the back of the bike - and then I lost the front end. Fortunately I was able to pick the bike up and finish in 14th place, so at least I got two points.
"I'm sorry for my team because they were really good for the whole weekend and maybe I was not fully concentrating on the job because two mistakes and two crashes - this is a lot for me," confessed Pedrosa, who also fell during free practice.
"Dani showed amazing overtaking skill to go from his starting grid position to lead the race for a time," declared team manager Makoto Tanaka. "
But the machine set-up wasn't perfect and the front began to tuck. Unfortunately, finally, he fell. It was very disappointing but he showed good professional spirit by restarting and taking two points."
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Manque de concentration, mauvais placement sur la moto ... finalement peut etre bien que Pedrosa a encore un peu de mal physiquement sur la motogp ?
Ou peut etre effectivement son pneu avant etait un peu trop fatigué ?