Dani Pedrosa: “My way is to do the best for the team, Marc Marquez had the other way”
Pedrosa and Marquez were Repsol Honda teaꦉmmates for six seasons, during which time the younger man took over as the team’s star rider and most influential voice.
Pedrosa, now 37, returns to racing at the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Spanish MotoGP this weekend as a wildcard entry for KTM and has b🐠een looking back on his time alongside Marquez.
“At least in the team we were in, HRC, it wasꦯ like this: the one who goes the fastest is the number 1, the one who chooses the parts and the one who determines the direct꧑ion a bit,” he told .
“When he arrived, I was in tha💯t position and with the races and the championships he took that position and decided in🐓 his own way.
"When I was directing more the evolution of the bike I had the partꦉs first and I never thought in [my] own way.
“My way has always been to do the best for the team, and if I have the beཧst parts to make the bike the best, I'm not thinking about my rival right next door, but about Yamaha, Ducati... whoever the rival was, because I consider myself part of the brand.
“Later he had that other way of doing it.
“I don't think I was missing [the same way as Marquez], because my way of being w⭕as that one.
“For example, before Marc came in, with Casey Stoner, he never played t꧃hat game either."
Pedrosꩵa remains the most successful rider in MotoGP to have never won a championౠship.
He finish🍃ed as a runner-up three times, and third a further three tim📖es.
Marquez lifts lid on "trick" he pulled as Pedrosa's teammate
Marquez, the reigning Moto2 champion, joined him at Repsol Honda in 2013 and won the MotoGP championship in his roo๊kie year, then ag🌄ain in 2014.
The Spanish duo largely had a fruitful relationship but Marquez, in his Amazon Prime Video documentary, made some revelations for the first time about how his competitive spirit would burn in a differ⛄ent way to Pedrosa’s.
“There🌠 was tension,” Marquez said. “He was the king, the No1, and people listened to what he said in the box.
“Everyone expected som🐬ething fro▨m him. The team was focused on him.
“And out of nowhere comes this kid, in his first year afte♚r Moto2. First race… boom! Second race, boom! And it’s a hard pill to swallow.
“Back then we had a great bike and everꩲything worked well. So if a replacement piece worked for him, then I didn’t like it [and I would say]: ‘This doesn’t work, I want this one!’
“‘I want this replacement piec𝄹e, since I’m leading! Don’t give him this!’
“That’s how it was.
“‘How about this piece? ඣYou want to try it?’ B🔯ut I didn’t want to. I just didn’t want him to have it.
“It’s the kind of trick every💮one pulls. People don’t talk about it.”
James was a sports journa♑list at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
