MotoGP Argentina: Jack Miller: Mega race from Brad Binder, I couldn’t believe it!

Jack Miller started the Argentine MotoGP Sprint race just behind KTM team-mate Brad Binder in 16th, but the South African was leading by lap 3!
Jack Miller ,Sprint Race, Argentina MotoGP, 1 April
Jack Miller ,Sprint Race, Argentina MotoGP, 1 April

Once out-🎀front Binder was never headed, keeping calm under pressure from Marco Bezzecchi to take his first v𝕴ictory since 2021 by less than 0.1s.

Meanwhile Miller - the star of last weekend’s Portimao Sprint on his KTM debut - had a tougher time, floating bဣetween 11th and 13th before taking tenth when Aleix Espargaro crashed out in the closing stages.

“It was the hardest I have ridden for zero points, but I was trying really hard to catch back to Fabio and Martin in front of me and I was making some headway there,” 🃏said🐈 Miller.

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“Brad showed the bike has all the capabilities. He qualified one position in front𝓰 of me on the grid and he made it work, that’s for certain. I could not believe it! I got a decent start…but when I started the third lap and saw he was in front. What happened there?!

“He rode a mega race as we all saw. He’sꦑ the Sunday man and nowadays a Saturday man as well.

"The bike has great potential and I could make some decent overtakes and put it where I wanted to, so no real negatives but I need to understand what happened at the beginning of the race because I had quite a few moment🍒s, a few big slides where I wasn’t going anywhere and then it got better and better.”

The Australian, who felt his engine was held back by too much electronic assistance in the damp qualifyꦦing, added: “It's all practice for tomorrow. That [Sprint] is probably the most intensi🌌ve ‘FP4’ you can do in terms of setting up for the [Sunday] race.

“At the end of the day, they are races and some🐬 of the hardest fights I’ve e⛄ver had have been for, like, 16th place.”

Miller has now slipped to joint sixth in the world championship with Johann Zarco, while B✤inder climbs to fourth.

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