Microscopic hero Dani Pedrosa is all set to make a sensational return to racing in a one-off wildcard race at Misano.
Pedrosa, who currently lives in a modified shoe, has worked tirelessly for KTM throughout the pandemic safe in the knowledge that the COVID virus is probably too big to ever squeeze into his diminutive body. This nanoscopic immunity has allowed him to push the development of KTM’s RC16 into what is now a race winning motorcycle.
However despite all his hard work at the Austrian firm Pedrosa has always stated that he has no interest in racing – possibly in case he awkwardly meets Albert ‘not his real hair’ Puig again. Furthermore KTM themselves stated in 2018 that they would no longer allow their test riders wildcard races after their then test rider Mika Kallio crashed heavily on an upturned strudel crust in Germany and bent his kneecap off. This affectively cut short the Finnish rider’s already mundane career.
With Pedrosa stating he would never race in MotoGP again and KTM stating they’d not race their test riders it seemed a perfect as time as any to brush all that under the Redbull sponsored carpet and tweezer Pedrosa back onto a race bike.
But why is he doing it?
It’s thought that Dani’s main motivation to race again is to stick it to the man and get one over his ex-employers Honda. After quitting racing at the end of 2018 Honda said they had no use for someone so small and threw him away like a Bimota V-Due. HRC didn’t need him anyway – they had Marc Marquez and he would win no matter what piece of crap they gave him…
Luckily for KTM though they recognised Pedrosa’s potential and snapped him up as a test rider. He was cheap, knowledgeable and didn’t eat much – kind of like Petrucci in alternate reality. At the time Honda scoffed but the last laugh has been at the evil HRC’s expense as they now have a terrible bike and KTM have a great one. An even last-er laugh may now be possible if Pedrosa can beat the Honda riders.