Dani Pedrosa may be Honda’s fair haired child, but HRC looks like they’ve got a special place in their flinty hearts for Marco Simoncelli.
Simoncelli didn’t take this year’s Rookie of Year Award, because he crashed out to often trying to find the limit of his RC212V and loses grip on his rear tire in the final part of the races, but Honda is always willing to giving him a hand.
When Dani Pedrosa was out of action, they sent a couple of the factory techs to the Gresini garage to help him and his team with the electronics set-up, and after the Australian GP, the Italian was once again invited to Japan for another wind tunnel test to find another cowling more to his size.