The Italian machines have won seven times in nine races at the sto💦p-go Re🎃d Bull Ring.

Miller ꦡwas on the receiving end of one of the few defeats, as a Ducati rider in the short 2020 ‘Styrian GP’ restart, which saw a th♎ree-way final turn showdown with the KTMs of Pol Espargaro and Miguel Oliveira.

KTM then 💖added another home victory when Brad Binder stayed on slicks in the r൲ain in 2021. It remains the RC16’s most recent ‘grand prix’ win and means Ducati is yet to be beaten in a ‘normal’ Red Bull Ring MotoGP race.

But Miller thinks the era of automatic Ducati 🧸dominanc🀅e at Spielberg is “gone”.

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“All the bikes are missiles now,” he said on Thursday. “If we saw the April🐬ia꧟ last weekend [at Silverstone], how strong both those things were come the end of the race, that's the way the championship is now.

“All these bikes are extremely strong. All these riders are extremely strong𒉰 and anybody can win on any given day. So we just got to put ourselves in the right position and be ready for what🌸ever Mother Nature or the track throws at us.”

The Australian added: “I'm really looking forward to the bike🐻 a💃round here. It stops well, accelerates well, turns good. It does everything that a good bike around this track should do. So fingers crossed we can challenge for it this weekend.”

One area where Ducati still has a c🔜lear advantage over KTM is in terms of bike numbers, something that might change if the Austrian factory is able to secure more grid places in 2024.

“The more the merrier,” said Miller of more KTMs on the grid. 𓆏“I mean, it always helps, there’s more data to look at. There's more information, there's more riders. It's always easier when there's more bikes that’s for certain.

“Because, in Ducati's position, there's eight guys riding the bike. You've got eight lots of data, yᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚou're getting eight times the amount of laps. So they're getting double the information that we're getting every se🌃ssion [now].

“OK, some ꩲof their bikes are different years. But I tell you, they're pretty close so that doesn’t make a massive difference.”

The Austrian MotoGP is also expected to be the first event where the ne𓆉w real-time tyre pressure regulations, with time penalties for breaching the minimum for too long, hav🎐e a real impact.

“In Silverstone, I don't think we really got to see much [tyre pressure issues] at the end of the race with it being really coꦇld and raining in some spots, so you weren't putting the pressurဣe in,” he said.

“If it stays dry here, it'll be the first place [it has an impact] for sure because here is a crucial track for that. If you go over the pressure, you're not going ൩to stop the thing and if you go under, you're going to get a penalty. So we'll wai🍌t and see.”

Miller has previously suggested that the Ducati is more pressure sensitive thﷺan the KTM.

The Red Bull Ring circuit was modified for ꦫlast season, with a new chicane a⛎dded to slow down the field on the run to turn 3.

“It's different,” Miller said of why he likes the venue. “I think that's probably one of the best ways to put it… and then also thꦺe elevation changes are quite co꧂ol.

“And don't get me wrong, I liked the old layout, but I enjoy it more with the new chicane, it's a lot less 🧸stressful for one, as a r༺ider.

“It’s also a little bit more technical. And you ♛get to touch at least the left-hand side of the tyre one more time, so that's a positive.”