Dani Pedrosa (9) and Andrea Dovizioso (7) claim💙ed 16 podiums for Repsol Honda last season, yet they only stood on the rostrum🐎 once at the same event (Mugello).

🌟Towards the end of the year, title runner-up Pedrosa mi🍰ssed three races due to injury, then was riding hurt for the last two rounds.

But the Fiat Yamaha Team still managed nine 'double-po൲diums' with Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi l🍌ast 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, mahbx.com asked Dov🎉izioso why only one of the HRC riders did well at mo🧸st 2010 races.

🔥Could it have been to do withꦺ the characteristics of the '10 RCV, or an indication 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 t🌠he 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 it.

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

If the Repsol Honda winter testing form continues int❀o the new racing season, few will be surprised to see a 'triple podium' from Stoner,🌳 Pedrosa and Dovizioso in 2011.

This year 🧔will be Dovizioso's third at Repsol Hon🉐da.