Jack Miller replicated his Aragon qualifying form in Misano on Saturday as he followed his Ducati teammate through to second on the San MarinoGP grid.

Showcasing his confidence in both wet and dry conditions across the Misano weekend so far, the Australian is looking forward to the battle come Sunday, although some details still remain in question.

“Yeah I'm feeling good in both conditions, from the get go to be honest,” Miller said on Saturday afternoon. "So I'm relatively confident going into tomorrow.

“Still a bit of a question mark. Having the wet sessions you don't get as many laps to understand the tyre and how it's gonna work and what's going to be the best combination. Some of the boys were really strong with the medium this afternoon, we opted for the used soft and it was good, but we need to study that a little bit more.

“I used the medium the whole session in FP1 and was not bad, it was pretty consistent. As good as it can be with the track being fresh like it was, no rubber or anything like that. Today our plan was to use the soft from FP3, just simply to get some information on it. It was the race tyre of last year, so just to understand how the bike is reacting with it, how the drop is, where the drop is and that kind of thing. I think we have some decent information, even with the loss of a session. Now, like I said we just need to analyse which tyre is losing the most weight, which tyre has some temperature issues and whatever and make our choice from that.

“If it rains I won't be frowning that's for certain. I'm excited, this track, I’ve always qualified well here, through one way or another I've never really finished that well, so definitely would be fantastic to sort of put that to bed tomorrow.

“It's always a 'Jack race' in my mind but we will see how the race unfolds. For sure Pecco, I think, on paper and from history is probably the strongest one on the grid so if he wants to check out I'm quite happy to sit in his wake and play blocker. As much as I can. But I think talking about that kind of thing now is pointless, we have to wait until the lights go out tomorrow and then once that happens, understand where you are, understand the race, how you're feeling, how the bike's reacting and then go from there.”

Millers confidence is due in no small part to the ongoing development of the Ducati, with the 26-year-old quick to reference the difference between last year’s visit.

“Massive difference, especially through the first sector, which this year seems to be a little more bumpy, the three corners in row,” he said on the subject. “I feel like the condition of that part of the track is definitely worse than it was in the past, but it's the most confident, most reactive I've had the bike go through there. Then also the back straight - in the fast kink turn 11 I think it is. This is a corner which I've hated my whole career, pretty much, and it's not too bad this year. Seems to go in there pretty well, I haven't touched the green too many times so that's always a positive. I'm not getting a long lap tomorrow hopefully so it's working really well.”

Another positive for the Australian, is his impressive teammate, with Pecco Bagnaia’s definitive style and intricate knowledge around the Misano layout proving invaluable.

“It’s something I'm studying already in the lead up to this,” Miller explained “because as I've seen last year - this year is a lot better, I think all my studying is definitely paying off! Because I mean last year I think he was going through there something like 15 kilometres an hour faster than me and this year I've been able to bring it down to about five or six so it's not too bad but yeah that's his specialty. I think it's more to do with the way he hangs out of the bike with his shoulders a lot more, he’s able to basically use his body as a sail and me, I go a little bit more old-school with my arse out so it doesn't really work ideally for these kind of corners.”