Jack Miller: “They tell you ‘you may be killed’ - I lost friends, broke bones”

Th♒e KTM MotoGP rider has been riding bikes since he was two, and racing since he was a seven-year-old.
He has offered a startling revelation of the mentality✨ needed to🐓 conquer fear.
“In Australia, where I grew up, before every ꧅race, you do a r꧟ider’s briefing,” Miller told .
“And they tell you: ‘Yo♑u may be killed or injured; your machine may 🦹be damaged or destroyed’.
“That’s something that burns itself in the back of your brain 🅷- and I’ve broken well over 30 bones, and lost s⭕ome really great friends.
“But did I ever think abo🅰ut quitting the sport? Does it even pop into my min♔d? Never.
“That can happen with the things you love: You’re sc♏ared about it, but you don’t really think about it.”
Miller’s ex-Ducati teammate and his friend Francesco Bagnaia adde꧒d: “Fear is 🍃part of our sport.
“It’s part of our job: When you crash🦂 at high speed, you feel fear - you’re arriving to the gravel very fast and approaching the barrier very fast - but before that, you don’t think about it.”
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo, the 2021 MotoGP championꦓ and Yamaha rider, went further: “You need to put your balls on the bike and giv𓂃e your best.”
Quartararo described Turn 1 at the Circuitܫ of the Americas in Texas to underline the speed and bravery of MotoGP riders.
“Right♔ here, after the backstraight,” he said, “we arrive there at 340 kilometers [211 mph] and we take the corner at 60 [37 mph] - that’s 280 kilometers [174 mph] difference in only 250 metres.”

Quartarar🎐o has paid 🌌a physical toll over the years.
“I brꦯoke my foot, my back, my wrists, my fingers. . . many things!
“Actually, my left wrist is really bad - I brokꦕe it in more than 20 parts.
“[It’s in the] past - now we n🍒eed to foc🍷us on the present.”
The 2023 MotoGP season, which has featured a new format introducinꦬg sprint races at every round on Saturdays, has been littered with injuries.
Marc Marquez has notably failed to complete a grand prix yet, in parꦛt to hand issues.
Pol Espargaro has missed the entire season after a crash on the first Friday left him with a b♛roken jaw, a serious back injury, and a lung problem.

James was a sports journalist at Skyꦛ Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.