Two days after the Spanish GP where Dani Pedrosa took second place, the Spanish rider will be undergoing surgery to his left shoulder later this afternoon at the Centro Medico Teknon where Toni Elias, Ruben Xaus, amongst other top name Spanish riders, have been known to go to solve their injuries.
Pedrosa will be having the titanium plate and screws removed from his collarbone in order to alleviate the pressure from his subclavian artery that has left the Repsol Honda rider gritting his teeth against the numbess and lack of strength that has hampered him (judging from his results not that much) in the first two rounds of the season.
However Sportmediaset.
com is reporting (more like gossiping) that Pedrosa’s shoulder problems may not be solely imputable to his 2010 Motegi crash, when a faulty fly-by-wire throttle left him with a fractured collarbone, but could have been exacerbated by a training accident he had with his motocross bike ahead of the season opener at Qatar.
Naturally Pedrosa’s entourage has vehemently denied the incident, but Jorge Lorenzo supposedly admitted to the Italian journalists that he too was present and training at the Lloret del Mar MX track when his MotoGP rival crashed.