Pedrosa talks about the phone call from Marc Marquez that changed his future at Honda

This year’s Australian GP Dani Pedrosa He will return as a luxury commentator for DAZN from the Barcelona studio along with Ernesto Riveras, but his doubts were made clear in an interview with DAZN at the media day of the Indonesian Grand Prix. Marc Marquez He bounced the ball and revealed that before making the decision to leave Honda, he called his teammate from Repsol Honda from 2013 to 2018.

“I’m not going to say what I asked him. Let him say it if he wants. I called him because he’s been at Honda for many years. He’s had a unique sports career. I asked him for some advice from a driver,” Marc Marquez half-revealed on Thursday at the Indonesian Media Day after Gresini Racing signed a permanent contract for 2024.

and true to his character Dani Pedrosa This Friday morning, in Spain, he tried to be as respectful as possible in a private conversation between two former team-mates, a conversation that was compromised because he is a KTM rider. At the beginning of practice, Liberace spoke openly about the subject, and Dani said, “Well, we talk about a lot of things, but they’re private, they touch on important topics, and we’re There’s no need to reveal that. In this context, it’s like, “There’s a very important detail. He was in a very dangerous situation and probably needed to have that opinion from the pilot’s perspective.”Dani said.

The three-time champion said: “It was a surprise for me. He messaged me and asked if he could talk. We chatted for a while, driver to driver, as he said. “My feelings have changed a little,” he admitted. At that moment, he was making a very important decision in his sports career, and it required, I don’t know, a little conversation, help, exchange of ideas. ”

recognized Pedrosa “The truth is that I hung up the phone, but I had no idea about the decision I was about to make and there was no indication.” Furthermore, the Castellar del Valles player confirmed that Marc will not be signing his contract with Honda until 2024. He was one of the people who believed that he would fulfill his mission until 2019.

“I thought he was going to stick around, but there are a lot of signs that he was going to leave. If you look at his results and you look at how nothing has gone right the last few years, he’s going to get out of there. The fatigue of not being able to do that says a lot about the way he is.” “It’s definitely going to change, he can’t stay like this for another year. It is also true that we have a very important contract with Repsol, our sponsor who has been supporting us.”