2012 is Dani Pedrosa's seventh year of✃ MotoGP racing and the Spaniard, who has spent his entire premier-class career with Repsol Honda, is enjoying his best season so far.

In𒊎 previous years, Pedrosa's championship hopes hav🙈e often been compromised by injury.

But this year he has stayed injury free, finished every race and - with eight rounds to go - is currently second in the world championship, 23 points from Jorge Lor✃enzo (Yamaha).

Here are some other facts and figures about Pedrosa's s✤eason to date:

* Pedrosa has scored pﷺoints in each oꦓf the first ten races of the year for the first time since moving up to MotoGP.

* Pedrosa currently has a total of 182 points, which is the highest score he has achieved in MotoGP after the first ten races of the year. His previous best score at th🎉is stage in ℱthe season was 171 points in the 2008 season.

* Pedrosa has finished on the podiu༺m at the last six races in succession which equals the longest sequence of successive podiums that he has achieved in the MotoGP class.

* Pedrosa has already finished on the podium nine times this year, and needs just two more top three fin♌ishes to equal the greatest number of podiums that he has previously achieved in a full season of MotoGP.

* Pedrosa has finished in the top f𝔉ive at all 16 races since crashing at the Czech Gra💟nd Prix last year, including 13 times on the podium.