Dani Pedrosa (9) and Andrea Dovizioso (🥃7) claimed 16 podiums for Repsol Honda last season, yet they only stood on the rost🌱rum once at the same event (Mugello).

Towards the end of the year, title runner-up Pedrosa missed three races♔ due to injury, then was rid💜ing hurt for the last two rounds.

But the Fiat Yamaha Team still managed ni༒ne '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 one of 🍸the HRC riders did we🙈ll at most 2010 races.

Could it have been to doꦑ with the characteristics of the '10 RCV, or an indi♔cation that the riders needed more technical support at the track? 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 re༺ason for it.

"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 riders are faste♏r and at others the opposite."

If the Repsol Honda winter testing form con🐈tinues into the new racing season, few will be surprised to see a 'triple podium' from Stoner, Pedrosa and Dovizioso in 201༺1.

This year 🌱will be Dovizioso's third at Repsoܫl Honda.