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Britain’s Scott Redding is slightly mystified why he hasn’t fulfilled his MotoGP potential on the works-spec Honda RC213V so far this year and says there is no reason that he can’t be faster.

Going into this weekend’s race weekend, Redding his hoping to find some answers to his questions. He has identified that low-grip circuits are a bigger problem than high-grip tracks like Mugello but the Estrella Galicia Marc VDS man still needs to get his head round a lot of other variables.

“I don’t actually know, this is the problem. It’s just not quite gelling. Going into the corner, sometimes I feel I am not slowing down enough, I don’t have the confidence to say when I want to stop here, I stop here. The bike feels like it does what it wants to do rather than what I want it to do. More or less it’s riding me than the other way around,” said Redding, speaking at the track.

“When we have track grip it’s not so bad, but when we have less grip we struggle more. The feeling is there, but it’s not doing what I want, then we change a few things and it doesn’t change how we expect it to. With a couple of things we have to try this weekend, we can make some steps, I hope, and then the gelling will come.

“There are a couple of things going into the corner that I am not confident with, so that means I don’t have the speed coming out. It’s a matter of the small things. On the exit it is aggressive. When you’re behind a Yamaha, Ducati or Suzuki, and they first touch the throttle, they have edge grip to pull some metres on you, with us you have to take more risk going in, wait later and then get on the throttle – and we always have wheelie.

“Mugello’s high grip should help, especially me, but the changes of direction with the bike being quite heavy at the moment we could use the grip to move it over. At Le Mans I couldn’t force it because we didn’t have the grip to do that.

“There is no reason I can’t be faster. I go into corners thinking, “Am I going to stop’, then I think ‘Don’t lose the front’ and by the time you come out it’s too difficult. I’m relaxed or comfortable and I get stuck at a laptime as I think we have reached the limit. We need to break that rhythm.”

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