DANI Pedrosa has revealed he is still struggling a little bit with grip despite emerging on top in the second MotoGP free practice session at Aragon.

The Spaniard was back on the form which powered him to the win at Misano a fortnight ago as he beat his Repsol Honda team-mate Marc Marquez to the top spot by 0.065s this afternoon.

But he later admitted there was still some improvement to be made, and that he was never able to get quite where he really wanted to be.

“The track was not superb today I think because the sun never was there so it never really went up in temperature,” he said. “And we are using a really strong rubber in this track so it was a little bit tricky because the feeling was not perfect with the grip today.

“We need to work on that and try to see also if the track improve and maybe the temperature will help us to have a better feeling.”

With a best lap of 1’48.429, he was around a second and a half quicker than he had been in the earlier session, and he attributes this to a bit of everything.

“This morning was the first run so it is more difficult and you are less used to the track. In the afternoon you know better the track again, you have more laps in and also we changed the tyre. Lots of people changed the tyre during the run except us.

“This afternoon we started with the hard rear, which today was working better. And basically we try this, we tried the tyres today and tried just to run some laps.”

He also believes things he and the team learnt about the tyres at Misano have helped a lot coming into his home event.

“With the stiffer profile, when you are on the pace you don’t change the profile because the profile remains. On the soft profile you have the standard profile and once you brake, the tyre goes down and then the profile changes.

“In the corner with brakes or when you release brakes, the profile is changing and then your feeling is all the time changing if you don’t have the correct set-up or correct style to run this soft casing,

“After the last race we learned a bit and then we are trying now using with the standard, so we are trying to adapt as much as we can to ride it in a better way so we have less problems.

“I learned a little bit and I’m trying but the feeling was not special today and we need to work towards that and also towards the grip on the rear tyre.”