Dani Pedrosa ‘doubted’ whether he could ‘dominate MotoGP bike’

Pedrosa never won a MotoGP world championship but it considered to be one of the best riders n🥃ever to do so, if not the outright best.
The former Repsol Honda rider also competed in an era that included 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valentino Rossi, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Lorenzo, three of 💯the greatest riders MotoGP h🍌as ever seen.
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Pedrosa, who has been with KTM as a test rider since 2019, suffered many injuries throughout his career which also cost him th🉐e chance of becomi🐠ng a MotoGP world champion.
But despite never winning the bigge﷽st prize, Pedrosa felt he got the most potential out of himself and is ‘at peace’ with his career.
Speaking to , Pedrosa said: "In general, I am at peace,🥀 because I have always pushed myself to the maximum, and when there was something I worked on it. When there was something that wasn't working, I fought it.
"I did things to work mentally, I did things to ⛎work physically, I did things to work technically... I always faced my problems, I didn't try to avoid them, I went straight ahead.
"I worked on the set-up in the race, because at the beginning in MotoGP I was very fast at the beginning💃 of the race but not at the end, but then I was fast at the end... I worked on everyth🍎ing."
Before arriving in MotoGP Pe൩drosa was considered to bꦉe one of the best talents coming through the ranks.
A championship win in the 125cc category was backed up by winning the 250cc championship in consecutive years, including the 2005 season when he got the better of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Casey Stoner, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Andrea Dovizioso and Lorenzo.
But when the time for a move to MไotoGP came about, Pedrosa, along with many others, had doubts about how well he would fare due to his lack of height and weight.
"If I'm honest, when I won the 125cc World Championship and went🐟 to 250cc, then I already had doubts, because the bike was bigger and heavier, and I was very small," added Pedrosa.
"I don't know if you remember, but 🤡there were already many doubts about me, because my riding style was too smooth and too fine, and that those bikes needed more force.
"I also remember having doubts, because🍨 maybe I was too small, but I got on it and everything went smoothly, and I won two titles. But despite the fact that I adapted well to 250cc, I had already tried MotoGP at♏ the end of 2004 and that was another dimension, it was a huge thing.

"Not only in terms of power, but also in size: I barelꦫy reached the handlebars, I fell off the hook and my feet came o🐻ff the footrests. I didn't get to the brake.
"When I switched to MotoGP, there I doubted more if I could dominate the bike. Not to go fast, but above all to control the bike, to do with it what I wanted💝 at all times.
"Being able 🐠to do whatever you want with the bike, keeping it low in your control. That was what cost me the most in MotoGP, that I didn't always have control of the bike.
"That affects confidence a bit, because you know that when there aꦍre certain conditions or situations, you go behind the bike, it can beat you."