The 2011 World Cup was “in the trash” after the incident with Simoncelli; due to his death there was no time to “forgive” the Italian in time

Dani Pedrosa had a particularly torrid weekend at Le Mans in 2011, where he was injured in an incident with Marco Simoncelli. He admitted that sometimes you have to ask for forgiveness – which he didn’t do at the time – but admitted that later on, due to the Italian’s death and the fact that his championship went “down the drain” after that incident, he struggled to process everything that had happened.

The former rider, who currently represents the colours of KTM as a test rider, explained on the Por Orejas podcast that he had thrown away his championship title in view of the events in France, where he was injured: “The worst thing was that I broke my collarbone and had to have two or three operations in a row because they couldn’t fix it properly. I lost three races and threw away my world championship title, which I had been leading.”

With the moment still fresh in his mind, Pedrosa admitted that he needed more time to process everything and apologize to his opponent for his impulsiveness on the track. In fact, he didn’t have time to do that, as Simoncelli died at the Malaysian GP. However, he admitted that he had “learned”:

– At that moment, the problem is on the surface and it is difficult to forgive like that and it is something that is processed later. In this case, I did not have enough time to process it because unfortunately he passed away, but at that moment I understood him and was one of the first to go to the box where his father was.