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

Pedrosa never won a MotoGP wo﷽rld champi🥃onship but it considered to be one of the best riders never to do so, if not the outright best.
The former Repsol Honda rider also competed in an era that included 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valentino Rossi, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Lorenzo, three of the greatest riders﷽ MotoGP has 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 the chance of becoming a Mot𓆏oGP world champion.
But despite never winning the biggest prize, Pedrosa felt he got the most potentia♋l 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 theꦬre 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 ൩them, 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 every💟thing."
Before arriving in MotoGP Pedrosa was considered🍒 to be 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5最新开奖结果:Casey Stoner, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Andrea Dovizioso and Lorenzo.
But when the time for a move to MotoGP came about, Pedrosa, along with many others, had doubts abou▨t how well he would fare due to𓄧 his lack of height and weight.
"If I'm honesꦕt, 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, ౠbecause 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 MotoಌGP 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 barely reached the handlebars, I fell off the hook and my feet came off the footrests. I didn't get to th🍷e ജbrake.
"When I switched to MotoGP, there I doubted more if I co𒊎uld dominate the bike. Not to go fast, but above all to control t𝔍he 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 𒁃of the bike.
"That affects confidence a bit, becaus🐠e you know that when there are certain condꦐitions or situations, you go behind the bike, it can beat you."