“I’m starting this season in a really positive mood. In general, it has been a very good winter for me and much better than the last one,” Pedrosa commented. “I have been able to do a lot of physical training and work on my fitness levels. Also I was able to rest after the end of the last season and, even though I had a small operation to remove a screw from my wrist, the recovery period after this was very short and I can begin the year in very good shape.”

Pedrosa admits that there is still work to do on the bike, with the electronics set-up still causing some concern when cornering.

“At the last test in Sepang, we couldn’t make all the progress we would have like to have done,” Pedrosa added, “but we still have two more days of testing ahead of us and we will take the maximum profit from them to prepare for the first race.”

Pedrosa’s team-mate Andrea Dovizioso should also be fit enough to test the sister Repsol Honda machine after suffering from a bout of flu last week that kept him away from the 2010 bike’s official launch in Spain.