MotoGP star rookie Marc Marquez wa💟s quick to admit that he learns from team-mate Dani Pedrosa's data - and that of Repsol Honda predecessor Casey Stoner.

But the Moto2 champion added that differences in riding style mean he must follow his ow🍸n path in term🤡s of bike set-up.

Following the Mugello round, whe꧋n Marquez fell shortly after overtaking Pedrosa for second place, Pedrosa was quoted as saying that Mar🌳quez had improved traction for the race by adopting his settings.

Speaking at Catalunya on Friday evening, Marquez insisted that the ♋only relevant comparisons are in terms of riding technique.

"For 🥃data, I compare with [Pedrosa] after every practice because I know [where] example he is much faster," Marquez said.

"But about the set-up we don't compare, because in the end we have dif♔ferent riding styles.

"In the pre-season tests at Sepang and Jerez I tried his set-up, but I𒁏 was not able to ride with that set-up."

Asked to give some 🦂examples of how he uses the data, the Austin race wไinner explained:

"Sometimes I also compare with the laps of Casey, from last year. Especia🐼ꦫlly on the Friday is where I compare the data more. On the Saturday it is less.

"On the Friday it helps me because you can see a little bit if he goes in to the corners faster, 💫stops the bike more, opens the gas more or less than me. Sometimes I open the gas too much, I have too much spin and the bike does not push [drive forward].

"So all of those things I try to🅘 compare to him, but that iꦏs the normal way."

Marquez was sixth fastest on Friday for his home round, but pleased by🍸 the progress made between the two track sessions - having never ridden an RCV at the Catalunya circuit before.

"In the beginning it was a little bit difficult but in the afternoon I felt good. We started with the same bike as Mugello,♈ but in the first practice we were struggling quite a lot so we change﷽d many things and made it much better.

"In first practice we were 1.2s behind and in second practice it was half♚ a second. That is most important and I hope to continue in that way tomorrow.

"The first sector is similar to Mugello, then T2 and T4 there are long corners where we are 💖struggling bit more Not just set-up but my riding styles and lines. It is difficult when you ride alone. But we know more or less the problem."

The 20-year-old added that his physical condition was now "perfect", having been left battered and bruised by aꦫ main straight fall on Friday at Mugello.

Title leader Pedrosa was third fastest i🍨n Friday practice.