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MOTOGP: Pedrosa Hopes To Rebound At Home
Dani Pedrosa will look to get his season on track in Jerez after a disheartening opener at Qatar.
Media Release  |  Posted April 29, 2010   Jerez (ESP)
Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa (Photo: Brian J Nelson)

PROGRAMMING NOTE: The MotoGP World Championship race from Jerez, Spain will air on SPEED live on Sunday, May from 2 at 8:00am EST.

This year’s Spanish Grand Prix was originally scheduled as round three of the 18-race MotoGP World Championship, the traditional curtain raiser for the main European sector of the season. But the chaos wreaked by Eyjafjallajökull, the Icelandic volcano which shut down much of European airspace last week, forced the cancellation of the second race in Japan, so Jerez has moved up the order to become round two.

Apart from the rescheduling of the Japanese GP to October 3 and the logistics efforts required for the early return of 270 tons of MotoGP freight from Japan to Spain, the sport was otherwise unaffected by Eyjafjallajökull. And there is an upside from the postponement of the Japanese race – riders will have less jetlag to contend with at Jerez than if they had raced at Motegi on April 25.

Motorcycle Grand Prix events don’t often get canceled due to natural causes. The last GP to fall victim to nature was the 1980 Austrian GP which was called off when three feet of snow hit the Salzburgring the night before practice was due to start. Severe weather conditions are certainly not expected at Jerez, where Honda’s six MotoGP riders will be aiming to build on what they learned at the opening race at Losail, Qatar, on April 11.

Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda RC212V) was Honda’s star performer under the Losail floodlights, winning a thrilling battle for the final place on the podium with Nicky Hayden (Ducati). Dovizioso fully understood the significance of that fighting third-place finish. It suggests the Italian is destined for great things this season and he is 100 per cent focused on keeping the momentum going at Jerez and beyond.


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