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Honda boss Livio Suppo claims that Dani Pedrosa, despite not yet becoming a world champion in the elite class, is one of MotoGP’s top racers. The Spaniard has won 26 races in the Honda factory team in nine seasons, but has not yet won the world title, and has been overshadowed by teammate Marc Maruqez in the last two seasons. Pedrosa was the first to beat Marquez this season. This happened at the Czech Grand Prix in Brno, and later the Spaniard slipped to fourth place in the championship, behind both Yamaha racers, Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo. Suppo claims that it is not only Dani who is to blame for the lack of points, but he cited the collision with Andrea Iannone in Australia as an example. "Denmark is a bit sorry for me as he was in second place in the overall standings almost all season," he said.

Romain Grosjean was the fastest in the first free practice for the Abu Dhabi GP. The Lotus racer overtook the second fastest racer, Lewis Hamilton, by 1 seconds with a time of 44.241: 0.192. Sebastian Vettel was third. As the racers are slowly running out of new engines towards the end of the season (they can only use eight of them per season), there was a long lull at the beginning of the first free practice on the track. After almost half an hour, Sergio Perez made it to the fast lap, and was soon followed by the others. At the top of the timeline, the names of the racers changed quickly, but at the end of an hour and a half of training, the fastest time belonged to Lotus racer Romain Grosjean. Lewis Hamilton and new-old world champion Sebastian Vettel came closest to the Frenchman. Webber and Rosberg occupied the quarter

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Honda: Pedrosa is still a top racer

Grosjeanu's first free practice