It’s not yet official, but everything points towards KTM test rider Dani P⛄edrosa making another wild-card entry during his home Spanish MotoGP at Jerez.

Pedrosa, a 31-time MotoGP race winner for Honda before retiring and switching to KTM testing ♑duties, thrilled the home fans by l👍eading opening practice, qualifying sixth and finishing a competitive sixth (Sprint) and seventh (GP)in the races.

With Pol Espargaro🐷 now sharing test and wild-card duties, the exact schedule for each is unclear, but KTM motorsport director Pit Beirer all but confirmed Pedrosa will be on a third factory RC16 at Jerez.

"I think so,” Pit Beirer told Dorna’s Jack Appleyard, when quizzed 🅷on a 2024 Pedrosa wi🌞ld-card at Jerez.

“Dani🐓 was already ꦛtesting for us again at Jerez this week.

“I feel he's getti🏅ng ready൩ for that. We will never push him to do a race, so at the end the last call is always on his side to say, ‘I want to go’.

“Bu❀tꦏ he's pretty strong and fast. I feel he is ready. He just needs to say’ yes’.

“We are ready for him."

After last year’s Jerez heroics, 🎉Pedrosa, 38, then performed even more strongly at Misano in Sept🍰ember. He finished a fraction from the podium in both races during the public debut of the factory’s carbon fibre chassis. 

The location of Espargaro's first race appea✨rance since last year's Valencia finale is still unclear.