Jack Miller: KTM engineers “listen to everybody, not just one, that’s their job”

Jack🍸 Miller explains how KTM are dev🙈eloping their 2024 bike at the MotoGP Sepang test

Jack Miller, Sepang MotoGP test, 6 February
Jack Miller, Sepang MotoGP test, 6 February

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller insists that the ‘24 KTM will be developed frꦿom feedback from every rider, with nobody ﷺprioritised.

The addition of the highly-touted Pedro Acosta to the Tech3 GASGAS team - at the expense of Pol Espargaro - has h🔴eightened the competition within🌠 the KTM ranks.

Acosta was notably third-fastest on the first day of MotoGP testing in Sepang, w𓂃hile Brad Binder was 12th and Miller 18th.

Binder was the manufa𝕴cturer’s top rider last year, he was the closest to the title-chasing Ducati trio, but Miller insists that it’s a level playing field in💞 terms of building their 2024 bike.

“The workload will always be there because we all try the same g💧ear,” Miller said after the first day of testing in Sepang.

“But it helps to get four different inputs, six inputs 𓆏with Dani Pedrosa and Pol.

“We have a fantastic set-up now wi🐷th great riders.

“They are not just listening to one, they listeꦦn t🦩o everybody.

“And trying to piece it together. That’s their job. To listen to every riders’ feedback and to pieceꦕ it together, to try and translate it into reality. They have been busy.”

KTM possess test rider Pedrosa - who shone as a wildcard last season - and demoted Espargaro fr♒om full-time racer to another test role. It is an unrivalled duo of non-racing riders who can help in developing the bike.

Miller entered the preseason Sepang test revealing that he broke his scaphoid b𝓰🐻one in a motocross accident over the Christmas period.

But he insists that he didn’t🎶 f💛eel it when riding in Sepang on Tuesday: “It felt good.

“My biggest concern, basically, was the angles. These bl🙈oody things, we touch everythiไng on the ground nowadays.

“The wrist🅺 felt mega from the get-go. That was a big si🌃gh of relief for me.”

Jack Miller
Jack Miller

Miller rode his ‘23 and ‘24 bikes on the first of three days tes💎ting, trialling various “engine specs, aero specs, electronics specs”.

He said: “We played around a lot with the two bikes and different configurations. That’s the biggest thing now, trying to🔯 piece it together before we get to Qatar.

“This is the most𒈔 crucial point of 𓆉the area to understand the direction, and to make some big decisions.

“So, really, we’re just trying to take on as much work as possible, and to get thro👍ugh it as clearly and precisely as possible.”

A noticeable differen🥃ce was the very short exhꦫaust, in place of the much longer version used last year.

“It looks a lot nicer! It changes the enginಌe characteristics,” Miller said.

“Always, when you ❀play around with the exhaust pipes. People h👍ave been doing it since there was an engine built, basically.

“When you play with the exhaust pipe length… they obviously found something in their data to say that t🐭his is the direction we should be working in.”

Miller summaris𒈔ed his Tuesday testing: “Day 1, busy first day for mꦦe, 69 laps. The boys brought plenty of items for me to try, and to play around with.

“The bike is workꦫing really well, it felt really good. We hit the ground running.

“I tried a t👍ime attack in the afternoon but didn’t get what I wanted. It’s testing. We’ll keep plugging away at it.

“I’m happy with the direction that we’re going with the bike💟 in terms of everything - engine, electronics,🌄 aero.

“The boys had a re♒ally busy winter and did a fantastic job.

“69 laps today, the body is feeling pretty knackered, I was cramping up at the end! I’ll ൩sleep well tonight.”

Miller will return on Wednesday for the second of three daꩵys.

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