Dani Pedrosa on Jorge Lorenzo feud: “I made mistakes - uncomfortable memories”

Pedrosa will roll back the years this weekend when he makes a wildcard appearance for KTM at the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Spanish MotoGP, his home race and the scene of an iconic moment 15 ⛦years ago.
King Juan Carlos of Spain played peacemaker at Jerez in 2008, forcibly ma𝔍king heated ri𓂃vals Pedrosa and Lorenzo shake hands, although it wasn’t to end the animosity immediately.
“It was an important point, after what happened, everyone was talking ab💃out it,” Pedrosa told as he prepares to race in MotoGP again.
“He and I continued with that personal tension, it was not natural for us to talk, share opini𒐪on🧔s or like each other.
“Each had an opposite character to the other, that's what made the clas🌼h stronger.
“Over time that moment helped, mutual respect grew and the type of relation🧜ship changed.”

Pedros🔴a and Lorenzo’s feud began in lower classes but continued into MotoG𒁃P.
It piqued in Germany in 2005 when a clas🌞h left Lorenzo in the gravel.
In their later years, there began to beဣ rജays of light and, today, they are colleagues as MotoGP commentators and pundits in Spain.
Pedrosa will swap the microphone for the leathers in Jerez 🍃this weekend, with Lorenzo remain🉐ing in his commentary role.
“[Looking back], I have good memories,” Pedrosa said aboജut their on-track rivalry.
“In the moment🍎, tense, uncomfortable memories.
“We were fighting🌌, there was friction, statements, tension on the track, if you beat or beat him, for both of ꩲus to lose was very bad.
“They are not good memories, but in the past they are good because we pushed each other in such a way tha🍸t that caused us to raise our level to a point where we were left only him and me, the others were 🅠a clear step behind.”
Pedrosa was asked if, now aged 37 a♋nd with hindsight, he would still act the same way towards Lorenzo.
“I made mistakes, mistakes, that I would have lik💃ed no🅺t to make,” he said.
“They are part of lဣearning, of knowing yourself better and things are also changing, you learn as y⭕ou go.
“Obviously, if I could, I would have done different things, bu🐽🍸t most of them I wouldn't.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for aꦐ decade ওcovering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.