Why stop, just when I’m enjoying it?
Repsol Honda factory rider Daniel Pedrosa Ramal, age 32 and born just north of Barcelona, announced his retirement from racing at a marginally teary press conference a few weeks ago. The sniffles were no surprise; after 18 years in the same job one tends to become institutionalised and it’s hard to adjust to life outside prison. Sorry, I meant ‘the MotoGP circus’. Stripped of routine – promotional tours, press commitments, testing and actually racing – riders simply aren’t emotionally tooled-up to deal with mundane
