Jack Miller experiments with body position: “A ballache, literally!”

Jack Miller: “I started sittin🌺g on some things that you're not supposed to sit on﷽!”

Jack Miller, 2024 Catalan MotoGP
Jack Miller, 2024 Catalan MotoGP

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller’s quest to compensate for a lack of lean angle through the fast final sector of the Barcelona circuit during Saturday’s MotoGP Sprint race to⛄ok its toll o𒁃n a delicate part of his body.

After finishing at the head of a five-rider group in seventh place, the factory KTM rider ♌explained𒁏:

“Not the best day, not the worst. A similar story to Le Mans in the sense that we're just trying to understand about🦄 the gr♏ip window.

“Tꦛhe track was pretty slick this afternoon and I was really struggling in the last sector. We were missing some degrees of lean in a lot of those flowing, longer corners without brakes.

“I just wasn't able to use the front the way I should or the way I had been able to over the majority 𓃲of the weekend.

“This morning we were able to do consistent ‘39s. Friday af𝔉ternoon, we were able to do consistent ‘39s. In the race, my best was 39.9 on lap 3, then we were mid ‘40s the whole race.

“And it wasn't for a lack of grip on the rear. The rear was working as good as anybody I felt. So we’re just tryi⭕ng to 𓄧understand what we’re missing.”

The Australian’s search ๊for solutions on the low grip surface saw him experiment with body position during the 1꧋2 laps.

“It’s literally a ballache! Literally," he replied, when asked if it was fun or a ballache to try 𒊎different riding styles.

"Because I'm moving my body a lot more than I would, and I don't know if it's because I'm getting older or what, but out of turn 10, I starte🐷d sittingไ on some things that you're not supposed to sit on!

“It♈ was an uncomfortable position, just simply because you're stretching too much.

🎶“As the lean gets less, your body hangs out more to compensate, to try and keep that same radius of turning.

“It's fun [to try🍌 and experiment], but at th♒e same time you're trying to battle with the world's best, so it's stressful as well!”

Jack Miller, Marc Marquez, 2024 Catalan MotoGP Sprint
Jack Miller, Marc Marquez, 2024 Catalan MotoGP Sprint

The start of the race saw Miller clipped from behi🦩nd by Marc Marquez, 💙who lost a wing.

“The boys said he clipped me. I didn't feel that,” Miller said. “I was just trying to focus on getting through on Enea and then I got jammed at 4 by Jorge [Martin]🦄.

“He did we𒀰ll to stay on it because we kind of both went out on the dirty stuff, he committed massively and the thing came right arounﷺd on him. 

"I thought 'here we go…' But he did well.”

Miller's team-mate Brad Binder crashed out of the lead 🐎on lap 6 with Pedro Acosta the top RC16 over the finish line in third place.

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