Dani Pedrosa<\/a> tells Rossi in the newly released video on MotoGP.com<\/p>\n\u201cDo you remember at the Sachsenring I\u2019d crashed while leading? I said, \u2018Enough… Every year I lose the championship because there is a wet race and I have to go faster than I\u2019m comfortable with\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Dani Pedrosa crashes from the lead of a wet 2008 German MotoGP.<\/p>\n
\u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n
Rossi: \u201cHow did you train for the wet?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know how to do it,\u201d Pedrosa admitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cSo I took the motard [Supermoto] bike, put wet tyres, and when it was raining, I went to the karting [track].<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first day at the karting, I crashed on the first lap! Then I tried to heat the tyres a bit, and crashed anyway!<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know how the karting [track] is – flat, not much rubber. There\u2019s no grip.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo there we said: \u2018Impossible, we can\u2019t do this\u2019. So what did we do? [laughs] When it was raining, with Alberto [Puig, manager and former 500cc racer]\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo! On the normal road!\u201d<\/p>\n
Rossi can already see where the conversation is heading: \u201cNo! On the normal road!\u201d<\/p>\n
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Pedrosa continues: \u201c[Puig] called me and said, \u2018Today it\u2019s raining all day\u2019. We went to his home and took the [Motard] bikes, the leathers, a plastic coat, some money for fuel, and went on the road.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you know the road to the mountain in Barcelona? We went up and down, up and down… When we ran out of fuel, we\u2019d put some more. The continue, up and down, up and down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lorenzo overhears the conversation: \u201cOn the road? No way! Both of you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes,\u201d Pedrosa smiles. \u201cBoth of us, using the knee [down], up and down the mountain road 100 times, and then refuel. All in one day.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen, another time again, when it was raining, and from there I started to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cSo it worked\u201d, says Rossi. \u201cYou became fast in the wet.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Dani Pedrosa wins a soaking wet 2012 Malaysian MotoGP.<\/p>\n
\u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n
Pedrosa, who had joined MotoGP in 2006, finally claimed his first wet-weather victory in monsoon conditions at Sepang 2012.<\/p>\n
A further wet win followed soon after at Valencia, then at Le Mans 2013 and Motegi 2015.<\/p>\n
But ultimately, the wet breakthrough didn\u2019t provide the missing piece needed to claim a MotoGP title.<\/p>\n
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Pedrosa finished as the world championship runner-up three times, retiring at the end of 2018 with 31 victories, making him the most successful rider without a premier-class crown.<\/p>\n
Andrea Dovizioso is the next closest, with 15 MotoGP wins.<\/p>\n
Pedrosa and Dovizioso continue to ride MotoGP machinery as test riders for KTM and Yamaha, respectively.<\/p>\n
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