Pedrosa, who now lies second in the championship after his maiden win of the season last time out in Germany, earlier in the day confirmed he has signed a two-year contract extension with Repsol Honda, along-side Team CatalunyaCaixa Repsol’s current Moto2 championship leader Márquez. He said: “It was great to win the race, the feeling was so good. And after that Honda and myself announced that we will continue together. This is great news for me, because I’ve been many years with Honda since I started racing. I have always raced Repsol Honda. For us to continue it’s great and we are hoping to continue in a strong way, also now in the second half of the championship.
“Here is a great track for us. Last year doesn’t count much because I wasn’t so fit, but two years ago I won the race here, so I’m pretty confident here. The Honda is normally good here. We hope to do a good job and to do a good race.”
Yamaha Factory Racing’s Lorenzo, who regained top spot in the championship with a second place in Germany, is also adamant that he can improve at Mugello, and is confident of the Yamaha’s pace at the track. He commented: “In Sachsenring we saw how difficult it’s going to be this year to fight with Casey and Dani. It seems that they have improved a little bit the last two races; they have found something that has given them a bit more speed. But we are not so bad, apart from at the Sachsenring. We hope to come back here stronger and faster. I like it Mugello very much. I won here in 2006 and in 2011. It’s a track that can be good for my riding style and for Yamaha, and this year we won’t loose so much on speed. So tomorrow we will see.”
Repsol Honda’s Casey Stoner, who suffered an uncharacteristic crash at the Sachsenring, is looking to make amends at the Italian track and claw back points in the championship.
“We’ve always been quite fast here at Mugello. We’ve had quite a few podiums here and everything had gone quite well last year. We were happy with our pace, but it went a little wrong with tyre pressures, so we had nothing at the end of the race. Hopefully this year will be a different thing. The last two races we have worked very well with trying to save the tyres, trying to get them to work as best as we can over race distance. It’s definitely one of the tracks I enjoy the most. In general we’re happy with our pace, and if we can keep that sort of pace until the end of the season we shouldn’t have to worry too much about the points gap at the moment.”
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