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 never to doꦿ so, if not the outright be🎶st.
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, thrཧee of the great♓est riders MotoGP has ever seen.
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Pedrosa, who has been with KTM as a test rider sinc🎐e 2019, suffered many injuries throughout his career which also cost him the chance of becoming a MotoGP world champion.
But despite never winning the bi💝ggest prize, Pedrosa felt he got the most potential out of himself and is ‘at peace’ with his career.
Speaking t꧙o , 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 straigh🅠t 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 everything."
Before arriving in MotoGP Pedrosa was consid𝐆ered 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 MotoGP came about, Pedrosa, along wit🐈h 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 stylܫe was too smooth and too fine, and that those bikes needed more force.
"I a﷽lso 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 t𒉰o 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 barely reached the handlebars, I fell off the hook and my feet came off the fo🔯otrests. I didn't get to the brake.
"When I sꦕwitched to MotoGP, there I doubted more if I could dominate the bike. Not to go fast, but above all to control th💎e 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.&🥀nbsp;
"Thatꦜ affects confidence a bit, because you know that when there are certain conditions or situations, yoꦆu go behind the bike, it can beat you."