Pedrosa to return from surgery at French GP

The rider, who had surgery on April 3, had been predicted a recovery time of four to six weeks and said he was keen to get back.

He has suffered from a problem common among motorcycle racers when pressure builds up in the forearm and causes intense pain, making riding a bike difficult when the muscle becomes too big for the ‘sack’ that it sits in.

Pedrosa has not won a MotoGP race since the Czech Grand Prix last August and was sixth in the season-opener in Qatar.

(Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London- Editing by John O’Brien)