“Today is a sad day for me. On behalf of HRC, I want to thank Dani for all his hard and successful work, and to express our gratitude for these two decades together. We also wish him the very best of luck and success,” HRC President Yoshishige Nomura said of Pedrosa's departure on Tuesday. It would be easy to take this as traditional rider-sacking PR spin, but on this occasion there will almost certainly be sadness at the situation: sadness that an 18-year partnership has come to a close, and a sadness that the last 12 have failed to produce the MotoGP title Pedrosa so richly deserved. A Honda man from his very formative years in grand prix racing in the 125cc class in...
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