Desperate Dani's 'one man show'.

Dani Pedrosa claims he isn't thinking about winning the MotoGP World Championship in his debut season, but the 20-year-old's dominate Donington Park victory has put him within sight of the points lead.

From pole position, Pedrosa was second into the first corner and immediately began looking for a way past early leader Marco Melandri. On lap four of 30 the reigning 250cc world champion dived inside the Italian at the Melbourne hairpin, only to run wide and narrowly avoid an accident.

"My start was good and then I pushed really hard and tried to get past Marco but it was not so easy. When I tried to overtake I braked but I couldn't stop the machine so I was getting closer and closer to him and he was about to turn in. I was saying, 'please leave room!' and luckily he did," admitted Dani afterwards.

Having settled back into his rhythm, Pedrosa eventually took the lead with an elegant move into McLeans corner six laps later and quickly opened up a comfortable seven-second gap which he controlled to the end of the race. In a display of total dominance, Pedrosa repeated his performance from the Chinese Grand Prix earlier in the season by taking pole position, the fastest lap - by 0.45secs - and the British Grand Prix win.

"I didn't know if I could open up a gap because this class is really close, but at the end I could slow down a little bit to be careful. I'm really pleased with the win and I think the English crowd enjoyed the race too, and this British weather is really good!" smiled the London resident, before claiming: "I'm not looking at the championship position because that's not my target this year. My focus is still on getting the best performance from myself and taking profit from my opportunities."

Nevertheless, Pedrosa's victory moves him within 26 points of his team-mate and championship leader Nicky Hayden, who could only manage seventh on Sunday, with eight rounds still to go... and it's hard to imagine Dani getting slower.

"Dani put on a real one-man show and everything was under control for him this weekend - except when he overshot trying to overtake Marco Melandri. I was very surprised when this happened, and was very nervous, but it turned out to be an amusing aside to this race," added victorious team manager Makoto Tanaka. "He has shown that he has a very strong mentality which allows him to overcome problems, like his fall in Catalunya, and this is a very good quality. What an amazing MotoGP rookie he is."