I'm drawing a blank on who it was, but I wanna say troy corser or troy bayliss crashed like 3 times in a very wet WSB race and still won. He'd crash, pick it up and ride way faster than everybody else, crash, etc. It was probably one of the most exciting races I've ever watched!
When I still lived at home I couldn't have cared less about street bikes. One day stocker and I came upon an ama race in the rain and we watched it because we were both so blown away by how fast those guys were still going in the rain!