Pedrosa: `Disastrous tyres have made me embarrassed´

In statements likely to reverberate around the MotoGP paddock for a long time to come, Dani Pedrosa sensationally slammed tyre manufacturer Michelin for their efforts in the Czech Republic.

The French fabricants had brought a wide range of compounds to Brno in order to avoid a repeat of their Laguna Seca whitewash, none were suitable for Pedrosa to push for the top positions. For him, such an error was unforgiveable, and he let rip with a tirade in the immediate aftermath of his fifteenth place finish.

`I would say that this was the most difficult race of my career. I did all that I could from the start, and was close to crashing on three or four occasions. From then on I had to settle for finishing the race,´ said the Spaniard, in need of a good result after two consecutive DNFs.

`I´m embarrassed –I don´t think I´ve ever been so embarrassed- because of the feeling of impotence that I had on the bike… the tyres didn´t work well at any point in the weekend, which has been a disaster.´

So disappointed was the 2007 World Championship runner-up with the events that he also contemplated aloud the possibility of skipping the scheduled two-day Honda test that begins on Monday.

`Things are very clear; I was going very, very slow and despite that I still only had half the tyre at the end. It is even difficult to think about how to prepare a practice schedule for Monday. With these conditions, we won´t prepare anything in the test.´

With this in mind, and just one point from the past three races, the MotoGP title is moving ever-further away from Pedrosa. 76 points separate him and leader Valentino Rossi –a margin that will be hard to recover with just six races remaining.

`It´s bad for the title as well. We obviously knew that it was going to be difficult, but now it´s practically impossible. Above all, the worst thing to come out of this race is the feeling of powerlessness that one feels when putting up with these things.´