Puig keeps cool despite Pedrosa´s form
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
Although Dani Pedrosa has reclaimed the MotoGP World Championship lead at the halfway stage of the season his manager Alberto Puig is not getting carried away.
A calming and steadying influence on MotoGP title candidate Dani Pedrosa, his manager Alberto Puig was in a relaxed and determined frame of mind after the Catalan rider went back to the head of the general standings with his second place finish at the A-Style TT Assen.
Although he could not match race-winner Casey Stoner´s pace at the Dutch track, Pedrosa made it eight podiums in nine GPs so far this year in the Netherlands, taking advantage of Valentino Rossi´s Assen misfortune to go back to the top of the classification by a four point margin.
`It was an important result but not easy,´ said Puig of Pedrosa´s performance. `(Casey) Stoner was very fast and we couldn´t catch him. We got a second position after a good enough race and you cannot be that happy, but you also cannot be disappointed as we got good points.´
On Pedrosa´s consistency to date this season Puig commented, `Well he is trying! I think he is a clever guy, we are still missing some small things and we hope to get them as soon as possible because we think we are in a good position for fighting for the title. For sure, we will not give it away, we are going to try at our maximum for that.´
Meanwhile, when asked whether Pedrosa would follow in the path of his Repsol Honda team-mate Nicky Hayden in switching to HRC´s updated version of the pneumatic valve engine-equipped RC212V Puig answered simply, `I´m not thinking about that at the moment.´
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