More bad luck for Dani Pedrosa, as Repsol Honda has announced that the Spanish rider will indeed miss the Catalan GP this weekend, electing instead to heal further his broken collarbone. Pedrosa injured his shoulder at the French GP two weeks ago, clipping the curb after he crashed in an incident that involved Marco Simoncelli. For his part, Simoncelli had to do a ride-through penalty, and will be meeting with the MotoGP Race Direction during this race weekend to further explain his actions on and off the race circuit.

For Pedrosa, it was hoped that he could recuperate in-time for his home GP outside of Barcelona; however, due the bone healing slower than anticipated he has been forced to follow a more conservative treatment. Now the question is which race Pedrosa will return back to MotoGP at, as the MotoGP calendar is now hitting six races in the next eight weeks. Pedrosa’s injury comes at the worst time of the season, and hopefully he can be back on the saddle of the Honda RC212V by the Silverstone round.