Why Dani Pedrosa is using number 26?

Dani pedrosa, drove a 50cc bike at the age of four itself. so he had the background of motorcycling in his family and childhood itself. He was born on October 29, 1985 at satadell village in spain.He is the youngest 250cc world champion and he says his confidence never diminished in race.he is one of the racer who had many serious injuries and few were critical.To talk about philosophy he wants to treat his mother well always.
At the other side he is very light and he admits his special talent is to play video games.Known as dani among his friends had ridden 125cc,250cc at 2006 for repsol honda.He had partnered with nicky hayden, marc marquez and his major rival was casey stoner.Once pedrosa was taken out of race bu oliver jacque and randy de puriet but he ended the season in 2 nd place behind stoner and ahead of rossi.

    Later he signed a two year contract with repsol honda for 2008 and 2009.unfortunately he crashed in   2009 pre season and injured himself. he raced to finish 11 th in 1 st round but recovered fitness at subsequent rounds. At 5 th round he again injured himself and rated 33 points behind the leader.
For 2010 pedrosa reverted to number 26- a number he used when he first entered motogp from number 2 in 2008and no 3 in 2009 that he used. This act of pedrosa is to please his fans who had asked him to return to the number he had always. This shows pedrosa's basic good will and concern of his fan base too.

Pedrosa has a girl friend named yvette Amusea but her real name is known to be Mirelli Amusea. They have strong relationship from 2004 and they both are tremendously happy with the relation. she is known to be a student of university of Barcelona and the relationship seems very solid.