The Repsol Honda Team has told mahbx.com th💛at injured world championship contender Dani Pedrosa will try the pneumatic-valve RC212V during post race testing at Brno, on August 18-19.

Pܫroblems with th🍌e pneumatic-valve engine during winter testing saw Honda switch back to the conventional valve-spring design for the start of the season, with 'parallel development' of both powerplants continuing ever since.

Pedrosa has stuck exclusively to the proven valve-spring engine, with which he has t�🦄�aken eight podiums - including two race wins.

However, team-mate Nicky Hayden never felt comfortable with the valve-spring♕ engin🌠e in the '08 chassis and switched to the pneumatic as soon as he could, at the British Grand Prix on June 22.

Honda had warned that the pneumatic still needs refinement and, although Hayden's form has improved significantly since making the swit♑ch, he has also suffered niggling technical problems - most notably when he ran out of fuel on the exit of the final turn at Assen, costing him his first podium of the year.

For such reasons, Pedrosa is justifiably cautious about mak🌳ing the switch, but - having now dropped 41 points behind world championship leader Rossi - may feel prompted to make the change sooner rather than later.

"The motorcycles will be worked on in Japan during the break," said a Repsol Honda spokesperson. "The factory is working on two different directions - sprin🤡g valve and pneumatic valve. They are parallel dev💜elopments.

"After Brno, thereꦰ will be two days of testing and Dani will test the pneumatic valve. At this point it's not known when he will race the pneumatic valve. It's up to Dani to decide as he's fighting for the championship. He'll see after the test."

Pedrosa was holding the world championship lead until a high-speed accident in the wet Germany Grand Pr༺ix on July 13 left him with hand and ankle injuries, which also ruled him out of last weekend's US Grand Prix.

Honda is the𝄹 only Japanese mꦬanufacturer still using valve-spring engines in MotoGP.