During the presentation of KTM for the 2023 season on January 26 the team manager Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, Francesco Guidotti, announced the presence of Dani Pedrosa as wild card during the Spanish GPin the circuit of Jerez-Angel Nieto. And now in a statement for motogp.com, Guidotti has advanced that they would like to have the Spaniard in a second race as a guest, which could be in the San Marino GP (September 8-10). The statement was made by the KTM leader during the last test of sepang and it has been known this Monday.
They were not entirely satisfied mattighofen with pre-season training, and Guidotti himself recognized this after finishing the job: “Perhaps the expectations were too high. But we are missing something, we are missing a tenth. We are confident and satisfied with the work, but less with the times. We need to analyze this information and prepare proof of Portimão the best we can.”
Wild card requirements
Throughout the year three ‘wildcards’ are allowed for the teams, which rises to six for those without concessions. At this point, the championship website clarifies that a maximum of two guests per grand prize are allowed and that all requests must go through the Grand Prix Commission and this in turn inform the international federation. In addition, non-concession teams are not allowed to chain two consecutive wild card grand prizes, a restriction that concession squads do not have.
At the moment, and always according to the information from the organizer of the championship, Honda and Yamaha have not decided where they will put their testers on the track, Stefan Bradl and Cal Crutchlowrespectively. ducatifor his part, intends to request a wild card for Michele Pirro in San Marino and in Italyalthough he also values the scenario of Assen. In Aprilia value using Lorenzo Savadori in Mugello, Netherlands and Austria.
