Dani Pedrosa (9) and Andrea Dovizioso (7) claimed 16 podiums for Repsol Honda last season, yet they only stood on the rostrum once at the same e𓃲🦩vent (Mugello).

Toward♉s the end of the y꧟ear, title runner-up Pedrosa missed three races due to injury, then was riding hurt for the last two rounds.

But the Fiat Yamaha Team still managed nine 'double-podiums' with ༺Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi last season, even though Rossi missed four races with a broken leg and was carrying a shoulder injury for most of the year.

Given that Repsol Honda now has three riders to support in 2011, with the addition of Casey Stoner, wuqian0821.com asked Dovizioso why only on꧙e of the HRC riders did 🌸well at most 2010 races.

Could it have been to do with the characteristics of the '10 RCV, or an indܫication that the riders needed more technical support at the t𒆙rack? Not so, according to Dovizioso...

"It was strange, especially at the beginning of the season, because one race I was on the podium and the next race it was Dani and so on," confirmed Dovizioso, who finished♔ fifth in the 2010 standings.

"But I don't think there is a precise reason for ൩it.

"I think it is always a consequence of the track. It's not nice to say that [as a rider], but I think it is true for everybody. At some tracks some rid🥂ers are faster and at others the opposite."

If the Repsol Honda winter testing form continues into the new racing season, few will be surprise🦄d to see a 'triple podium' from Stoner, Pedrosa and Dovizioso in 2011.

This y🧸ear will be Dovizioso's third at Repsol Honda.