Dani Pedrosa rider Repsol Team Honda spent two days in Indonesia after Sunday’s Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix. Dani visiting the Sentul race circuit as a guest instructor at the Honda Racing School. Dani Pedrosa passed on precious riding advice to 16 Indonesian students between age of 11 and 15. Dani take a demonstration laps on a 110cc Honda Blade, one of the machines used by the school at which the former Honda 125cc GP winner, Noburo Ueda is the chief instructor.
“It was really good fun to ride the 110cc Blade!” Pedrosa said. “Of course it has very little horsepower compared to my RC212V, but I think it’s very good for the kids to start understanding how to ride a bike, to be familiar with the gears and the necessary riding style.”
More than 1,000 fans watched Pedrosa in his MotoGP racing leathers doing laps at the Sentul Karting circuit. After the demonstration Pedrosa offered some advice to the aspiring riders based on his experience when beginning racing when he was young. He said:
“The best advice I can give you is to follow your instincts from the heart and to have fun on the bike. You have one opportunity in life, so you have to remember this and give it your all. When I started I was also very small, but I had a lot of passion.” Pedrosa continued: “I could never imagine that I would be racing in the World Championship, but I was very lucky to be part of a project – as you are now – so you have to keep dreaming and work hard to make your dreams reality.”
Pedrosa also mention about thing that he want to be always connected and communicated with children, even he mention about doing some project in the future,
“I don’t know why, but I feel very comfortable with them,” he said. “And maybe in the future I will also think about working on some kind of a project, like my manager Alberto Puig did with me when I started with the MoviStar Cup.”
This was the first time that Dani visit Indonesian and it would be the first official to the world’s fourth most populous country by a Honda MotoGP rider. He said:
“I’m very surprised to learn how many people follow MotoGP in Indonesia. They are very passionate and really knowledgeable about the Championship. It’s a nice country, the people are very friendly and everybody tells me that I should come again to visit Bali!”
