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MotoGP 2011 Silly Season: Honda's Livio Suppo is already in Talks with Casey Stoner
When Livio Suppo made his shock switch Honda HRC after eleven years in Ducati to become Honda’s marketing manager many hinted, including Loris Capirossi, that Suppo’s first big move in 2010 would be try to lure Casey Stoner away from Ducati into the Honda factory team.
Suppo has gotten a jump start on the 2011 silly season and on Monday evening after the test session at Jerez, the Italian spent a long time with Casey Stoner and his dad Colin (Casey’s manager) in Stoner’s motorhome, negotiating Stoner’s eventual move to Honda next year.
Stoner has always stated that he would like to finish his career in Ducati, but will he be able to resist the sirens of Honda, especially when they come from Suppo, the man who strenously defended him during the Australian’s then mysterious illness?
MotoGP - Dani Pedrosa undergoes hand surgery
MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa underwent surgery in Barcelona on Wednesday to remove a screw from in his left hand.
The screw that was removed freed the adhesions that were blocking his extensor tendons that should allow the Spanish rider to improve mobility of his wrist.
Pedrosa was operated by the reknowned Dr. Xavier Mir, head Hand Surgery Unit, Department of Traumatology of the USP Institut Universitari Dexeus and was discharged from the hospital today and functional recovery should begin within two weeks.
Our best wishes to Pedrosa for a speedy recovery.
Source | motocuatro
Andrea Dovizioso Becomes a Father
MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso became a father on Monday the 14th. The 23-year old and his girlfriend Denisa have become the proud parents of a girl named Sara.
Sara was a little small when she was born and had to spend a few days in an incubator, but it seems that everything is fine now.
Twowheels would like to congratulate the new parents and give a big welcome to Sara.
Source | moto.it
Pedrosa and Dovizioso finally sign with Honda
Before this morning’s 125cc race at Misano, which we highly recommend you see, HRC Honda held a press conference to confirm that Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso have both finally put their signatures on the dotted line of their contracts.
Pedrosa has signed for a one year extension while Dovizioso has a one year contract with an option for 2011.
Both riders renewal was announced at Brno by HRC president Tetsuo Suzuki, which was immediately denied by both riders only to have the the Japanese manager say a few hours later that they only reached a basic agreement.
Silly season in 2010 is going to be the best ever for us fans with the four stellar riders, Rossi, Lorenzo, Stoner and Pedrosa all available and the top teams will have to start socking money away for 2011, because it’s not going to be cheap.
Continue reading: Pedrosa and Dovizioso finally sign with Honda
Honda HRC raises its prices
In these past few years we’ve heard that satellite teams in MotoGP are struggling to make ends meet and with the global economic woes we’ve seen a team like Kawasaki pull out of MotoGP, Scot Racing dump Yuki Takahashi with absolutely no qualms for sponsor rich Gabor Talmacsi and last and probably not least, Sete Gibernau’s team Grupo Francisco Hernando drop out of MotoGP in the middle of the season.
So in the middle of all these difficulties what has HRC decided to do for the 2010? Up its prices, naturally.
Honda has decided to raise its leasing costs for all the satellite teams and advised their clients during last week’s Sachsenring round. They’re talking about € 200,000 more than last year and that will take the cost of leasing two bikes and spares from Honda to a cool € 2.000.000, and that is a lot of cash for team managers like Fausto Gresini, Lucio Cecchinello and Cirano Mularoni. Many private teams get some monetary help from Dorna, but for the rest they have scrape by searching for as many sponsors as they can.
You have to wonder if Honda’s move is wise in these troubled times, and if a customer RCV is really worth € 2.000.000, when it has 800 rpm less than the official bike and especially when you have to give it back to Honda at the end of the season to be destroyed under a hydraulic press.
Kousuke Akiyoshi to replace Pedrosa at IRTA Test
Former Suzuki test rider and occasional MotoGP wildcard Kousuke Akiyoshi, will replace a still recovering Dani Pedrosa in Honda HRC in this weekend’s official MotoGP test in Jerez.
Akiyoshi, who joined Honda this past winter, won the 2007 Suzuka 8 Hours on a Suzuki S-GSX-R1000 alongside Yukio Kagayama.
Kousuke Akiyoshi has appeared as a wildcard in four MotoGP races in the past seasons and now rides for the F.C.C TSR Team (Honda) in the Japanese National Championship and will again take part in this year’s Suzuka 8 Hours, this time with rider Shinichi Itoh.
Ducati’s test rider Vittoriano Guareschi will also be in attendance at the Jerez test.
Source | motogp
Repsol: We'll support Pedrosa for as long as it takes
When Jaume Girò, one of Repsol’s top managers, who recently left the Spanish oil company to head for the Caixa, one of Spain’s most important banks, Dani Pedrosa lost one of his most staunchest and oldest allys that he had in Repsol. Girò was almost a sponsor within a sponsor, he was the one that insisted on Repsol backing Pedrosa and he was the one took Pedrosa away from Telefonica back in 2005.
There was some discontent in Honda last year, bouncing around both Spain and Japan, regarding Pedrosa’s continuing and disappointing results and an ever increasing hostility towards Pedrosa and his manager/svengali Alberto Puig, it was Jaume Girò who intervened and protected the duo.
Now that Girò is no longer present, there has been some nervousness on the duo’s part because Giro’s departure has come at the wrong time. Pedrosa’s contract is up at the end of the year and their have been certain rumors running in the paddock that since Girò left, other Repsol managers have been trying to contact Jorge Lorenzo and bring him into HRC. Lorenzo is a top rider, he’s Spanish just like Pedrosa and certainly has better communicative and media qualities than Dani has.
Continue reading: Repsol: We'll support Pedrosa for as long as it takes
Pedrosa to miss Jerez test, unsure for Qatar
Dani Pedrosa was released from the USP Institut Universitari Dexeus hospital Saturday morning after undergoing surgery to his wrist and left knee after crashing during the Qatar tests last Monday evening.
According to Dr. Mir both operations were a great success and was optimistic about a rapid recovery, however did not give a definite date for the rider’s return, but did state that recovery times for professional sportsmen are shorter and that Dani’s prognosis is very good.
Whilst the recovery time for the injury to his left arm will be reasonably short, he will be able to start his rehabilation within a week, his knee will need more time to heal after it received a skin graft. The rider will have to rest it completely for three weeks, he will then be able to begin bending the joint at some point during the fourth week.
Continue reading: Pedrosa to miss Jerez test, unsure for Qatar
Update on Dani Pedrosa's Surgery
Dani Pedrosa was operated on by Doctors Bartolomé Ferreira, specialist in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and Dr. Xavier Mir, Head of the Hand Surgery Microsurgery Unit at the USP Institut Universitari Dexeus yesterday evening to place a titanium screw in Pedrosa’s left wrist and skin graft on his left knee. The two doctors carried out the three-hour operation at the same time, with the left knee skin graft taking the most time.
At the press conference the doctors spoke about each procedure and the likely recovery time.
“Dani Pedrosa received a graft on the open wound using a rotation graft, a graft of skin and fat taken from the inside of his left thigh to cover the affected area,” stated Dr. Ferreira. “We must now wait for scar tissue to form; the patient will be able to start moving a little within three weeks and within a minimum of four he can begin to bend the leg.”
Dani Pedrosa to undergo surgery
Dani Pedrosa returned to Barcelona Tuesday morning, and was taken directly to the USP Institut Universitari Dexeus hospital, where he was examined by Doctor Xavier Mir, the head of the Hand Surgery Unit.
After a checkup and further Cat scans and a RM, Pedrosa was diagnosed with a distal radius fracture on his left wrist. He will be operated on Wednesday, and a titanium screw will be inserted.
In addition, the check-up revealed that Pedrosa has lost some flesh around his left knee which received three stitches in Qatar and this will require skin graft surgery, also to be done on Wednesday.
Pedrosa Injured - Out of Qatar Test
Dani Pedrosa highsided with his Honda HRC at turn 10 of the Losail Circuit this evening. The Spanish rider crashed heavily injuring his left wrist, the same one that he injured during the Sachsenring race last year.
According to Dr. Claudio Macchigodena of the Clinica Mobile, Pedrosa has injured his upper left arm and his left leg, but did not hit his head nor lose consciousness. X rays and initial scans have shown no broken bones, but a possible crack in a bone of his left hand, but will have wait another 24 hours and another CAT scan to confirm 100% that he hasn’t sustained fractures.
Pedrosa also aggravated an existing left knee injury that required three stitches, which he injured at Phillip Island and had surgery on in December.
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