The Italian machines have ꧒won seven times in nine races a🀅t the stop-go Red Bull Ring.

Miller was on the receiving end of one of the few defeats, as a Ducati rider in the short 2020 ‘Styrian GP’ restart, which saw a three-way final t🌊urn showdown with the KTMs of Pol Espargaro and Miguel Oli❀veira.

KTM then added another home victory when Brad Binder stayed on slicks in the rain 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 autꦕomatic Ducati dominance ▨at Spielberg is “gone”.

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

“All these bikes are extremely strong. All these riders are extremely strong and any🔥body can win on any given day. So we just got to put ourselves in the right posit🅺ion and be ready for whatever Mother Nature or the track throws at us.”

T🤪he Australian added: “I'm really looking forward to the bike around 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 clear advantage over KTM is in terms of bike numbers, something that might change if the Austrian factoryꦜ is able to secure more grid places in 2024.

“The more the merrier,” said Miller of more KTMs on the grid. “I mean, it always helps, there’s more data to look at. There's more informa🔯tion, there's more riders. It's always easie⛎r 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, you're getting eigh🧸t times the amount of laps. So they're getting double the information that we're getting every session [now].

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

The Austrian MotoGP i♑s also expected to be the first event where the new real-time tyre pressure regulations, with time penalties for breaching the minimum for too long, have a real impact.

“In Silvers🅺tone, I don't think we really got to see much [tyre pressure issues] at the end of the race with it beingꦿ really cold and raining in some spots, so you weren't putting the pressure 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 th🔯e pressure, you're not going to stop the thing and if you go under, you're going to get a penalty. So we'll wait and see.”

Miller has previously suggested that the Ducat🗹i is more pressure sensitive than the KTM.

The Red Bull Ring circuit was modified for last season, with a new chicane added to slow down t﷽he field on the run to turn 3.

“It's different,” Miller said of why he lik♛es the venuꦫe. “I think that's probably one of the best ways to put it… and then also the elevation changes are quite cool.

“And don't ꧑get me wrong, I liked the old layout, but I enjoy it more with the new chican🌱e, it's a lot less stressful for one, as a rider.

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