Dani Pedrosa has just six more chances to sign off his MotoGP career with a 🧔race win in every season since 2002.

But 🅺i🧔t looks like a tall order at present, with the Spaniard yet to grace the podium in the twelve races so far this year - his longest rostrum drought in grand prix.

So what has gone wrong for the Repsol Honda rider, and what does he need to r🃏eturn to the front?

The answer, according to Pedrosa, is "corner speed and acceleration, it🤡 goes together".

Speaking after a sixth-place finish in Sunday's Misano race, the📖 54-time grand prix winner explained:

"If I compare to the Yamahas 𝓰or the Suzukis or some other Hondas, I still need a better setting to find my good corner speed.

"That's pretty much what we are looking for every weeke🍸nd, but it seems like we are not able to find the right balance that I need to make my riding more effective.

"For me, we a𒉰re too far from the top group, which is my aim. [At Misano] in the race I𒐪 can see the front group is lapping maybe 0.7 faster, in a short track, which is too much.

"For me, it doesn't matter what track we are at, the [problem] is the setting of the bike… So we'll see [at Arago🦩n] if we are changing something in the correct way."

Pedrosa, now rumoured to have concluded a deal 168澳洲幸运5官方🃏开奖ဣ结果历史:to become a KTM test rider next season, also spoke about the supremacy of the factory Ducatis, which have won the last three races with Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea ✅Dovizioso.

"It's true that Ducati for some reason has an extra advantage for some reason at this moment. The bike is s𝔉uper-f⛦ast, especially when they put the bike straight. It's clearly a huge thing over the rest," he said.

Despite Ducati's current form, Pedr♚osa's team-mate Marc Marquez holds a 67-point title lead after five wins during the opening nine rounds.