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Moto: Pedrosa hopes to be fit by Qatar by Virgil Ellipse
10th Mar 2009
Pedrosa: Not feeling himself. Honest.
Pedrosa: Not feeling himself. Honest.
MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa has suffered a set-back in his recovery from the violent testing accident he suffered in Qatar last Monday but is still vowing to be ready to race at the seaon-opener next month.

The Unda rider had been showing encouraging signs of recovery, after having a titanium screw inserted into his left wrist and a skin graft on his left knee, but when the bandages were removed from his face, he was dismayed to discover that he has started turning into Renault F1 make-weight Half-Nelson Piquet.

"If I look like this," said the knee-sliding Spaniard, "people will naturally expect me to keep spinning, crashing and making excuses for being a second off the pace, and I won't even have the thought of all the family's millions to comfort me.

"That's the reason for my slightly nonplussed expression in the picture (right)."

Pedrosa's doctors are doing their best to reassure him that any pereceived likeness is probably just because his own face looks slightly different to him because he is currently in pain and that Half-Nelson will always bear at least a certain similarity to anyone who goes around with a face like a slapped arse.

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KEY TO SERIES NAMES (hovering over the abbreviations in the table above also shows the full series name)
BF3CBritish F3 Championship
The top class in Britain's premier single-seater series.
F1Formula 1
The world's most prominent, most expensive and frequently most tedious single-seater series.
F3Formula 3
The top national single-seater motor-racing series. Or the bottom international one.
GP2GP2
The former Formula 2, now twice-renamed and god alone knows why.
KARTKarting
First step on the racing ladder, where most of the drivers are so young that they haven't actually taken their first step.
MotoMotoGP
Four wheels good - two wheels baaaaad.