26 – Dani Pedrosa Fan Site

Dani Pedrosa was second fastest on Saturday Free Practice session of Brno GP. Stoner has pulled out from this race as well as two other races after Brno.
Lorenzo tops the Saturday free practice.

1. Lorenzo
2. Pedrosa
3. Rossi
4. Edwards
5. Capirossi
6. Elias
7. Dovizioso
8. Kallio
9. de Angelis
10. Hayden
11. Melandri
12. Toseland
13. Canepa
14. Vermeulen
15. de Puniet
16. Fabrizio
17. Talmacsi

FIM has released the provisional calendar for 2010 season.

1. 11 April - Qatar – Losail *
2. 25 April – Japan – Motegi
3. 2 May – Spain – Jerez
4. 16 May – France – Le Mans
5. 30 May – Italy – Mugello
6. 6 June - Great Britain – Silverstone
7. 26 June – Netherlands – Assen #
8. 4 July – Catalunya – Catalunya
9. 18 July – Germany – Sachsenring
10. 25 July – United States – Laguna Seca ##
11. 15 August - Czech Republic – Brno
12. 29 August – Indianapolis – Indianapolis
13. 12 September – San Marino & Riviera di Rimini – Misano
14. 19 September – Hungary – Balatonring
15. 10 October – Malaysia – Sepang
16. 17 October – Australia – Phillip Island
17. 31 October – Portugal – Estoril
18. 7 November Valencia Ricardo Tormo-Valencia

* Evening Race
# Saturday Race
## Only MotoGP class

In the event that one of the circuits is not able to comply with the requirements to hold the scheduled Grand Prix, the Motorland Aragon Circuit would host a reserve “event” on the same day.

Dani Pedrosa finished ninth on British GP last weekend. Dani started from second position and managed to do quite well until the rain starts pouring.

MotoGP.com quoted him:

“At the beginning I was feeling good on the Bridgestone slicks and was able to judge my pace well according to the conditions. As the rain came however, I couldn’t maintain the temperature in the tyres and when this happens the grip really goes away and I wasn’t able to control the bike as I wanted. On the grid I was sure my tyre choice was correct, but with 10 laps to go I thought that maybe I should go into the pits and change to wets, but it wasn’t worth losing 20 seconds for the bike change because the lap times of the riders on the wet tyres were the same as the times on slicks.”

Dani is currently 4th on the Championship standings. Valentino Rossi still leads despite finishing fifth on Donington. Complete race results under the cut.

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Dani Pedrosa continued his strong and promising pace on Donnington MotoGP Qualifying. He finished second in the qualifying session, which earned him first-row-grid start. Valentino Rossi, despite admitting he has some problems with the bike, qualified first.
Complete qualifying results under the cut.

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After starting from 8th, Pedrosa managed to finish in podium position (3rd) at Sachsenring Grand Prix, Germany. Dani also set a new lap record! Rossi won the race with his teammate, Lorenzo, second.

He is quoted by MotoGP as saying:

“A podium is good, but I think that we could have won. We were strong enough to win, but I had a front tyre problem when I was going fast,” said the Spaniard on the same difficulty that forced Andrea Dovizioso out of the race.

“My teammate seemed to have a big problem with it, so I’m happy to have got on the podium, but anyway I thought that today we could have been faster.”

Complete results under the cut.

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After winning the race at Laguna Seca, Dani Pedrosa qualified in 8th position at Sachsenring GP, Germany. Hope he does well on the race.

Complete qualifying results under the cut!

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