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Dani Pedrosa

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Dani Pedrosa

Date of birth: 29/09/1985
Birthplace: Castellar del Valles – Catalonia – Spain
Hometown: Switzerland 
Weight: 48 kg 
Height: 159 cm 
Hobbies: Cycling, supermotard, motocross, trial, cinema, video games
Nacionality: Spanish
Years as Repsol rider: 16 (including 2017)
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 Honours

First race: 1997 Spanish Minibike Championship

First Grand Prix: 2001 Japanese Grand Prix (125cc)

First pole position: 2002 Japanese Grand Prix (125cc)

First fastest lap: 2002 Pacific Grand Prix (125cc)

First podium finish: 2001 Comunitat Valenciana Grand Prix (125cc)

First victory: 2002 Dutch Grand Prix (125cc)

World Championships: 3 (125cc. in 2003 and 250cc. in 2004 and 2005)

 

Sporting career

1997 3rd Spanish Minibike Championship
1998 Spanish Minibike Champion
1999 8th Movistar Activa Joven Cup Trophy (Honda RS 125)
2000 4th Spanish 125 GP Championship (Honda RS 125)
2001 8th 125 GP World Championship (Honda RS 125)
2002 3rd 125 GP World Championship (Honda RS 125)
2003 125cc World Champion (Honda RS 125)
2004 250cc World Champion (Honda RSW 250)
2005 250cc World Champion (Honda RSW 250)
2006 5th MotoGP World Championship (Honda RC211V)
2007 Runner-up in the World Championship (Honda RC211V)
2008 3rd MotoGP World Championship (Honda RC212V)
2009 3rd MotoGP World Championship (Honda RC212V)
2010 Runner-up in the World Championship (Honda RC211V)
2011 4th MotoGP World Championship (Honda RC212V)
2012 Runner-up in the World Championship (Honda RC213V)
2013 3rd MotoGP World Championship (Honda RC213V)
2014 4th MotoGP World Championship (Honda RC213V)
2015 4th MotoGP World Championship (Honda RC213V)
2016 6th MotoGP World Championship (Honda RC213V)

Biography

 

1996 – 1998

The first time Dani Pedrosa got on a motorbike was at the age of four and his machine, a motocross Italjet 50, had side-wheels. At the age of six, Dani began racing on minibikes. His first pocket bike was a miniature copy of a street Kawasaki. Other bikes followed, circuits and races with friends, always for fun and not even imagining what was yet to come.

It was in 1996 when the ten-year-old Dani entered the Spanish Minibike Championship. Dani began to race on kart circuits all over Spain, always joined by his parents and with the bike in the car trunk. That same year, Dani finished his first race in sixth position, due to a problem with the exhaust pipe of his bike. With the second race came his first podium finish. He liked the experience and decided to enter the same Championship the next year, after finishing second overall in his first season.

But he had bad luck and a few days before the 1997 season Dani got chicken pox. The result was that he wasn’t even able to put on the helmet. It was the beginning of the season and given the problem, Pedrosa finished that season eight points behind the leader, in the third overall position.

Although Pedrosa managed to get the title in 1998 he still enjoyed racing as a mere hobby. The Aprilia 50 Cup and the Open RACC were popular promotion cups in those days and Pedrosa considered the possibility to enter one of them. But due to the lack of means and support and despite his good results, Dani decided to leave motorbikes aside and to change over to mountain bikes. When he was just about to get the licence to start racing on bicycles, the family heard from a friend that the Movistar Activa Cup, a promotion cup with competition bikes, was being organised.

1999 – 2003

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