MotoGP Le Mans: Jack Miller: "I apologise to the team"
After fa🎃lling from third place when he was caught out by the medium front tyre on lap 2 of the Sprint, Miller retuned to the 🌱soft for Sunday’s main event.
The Australia😼n took the fight to early leader Marc Marquez, putting his Red Bull KTM into the lead from lap 3 to 1ꩲ0.
But just as Miller was perhaps starting to smell the sea breeze from the boat pictured on tܫhe side of his pit box, a bet with wife Ruby for when he takes a debut RC16 win, his rivals “seemed to be able to knock it up a gear”.
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Miller dropped swiftly back to seventh,𝕴 and spent the closing stagౠes in a battle with team-mate Brad Binder, before falling with three laps to go.
“🏅Obviously not the way we wanted to end things here,” Miller said. “We had great pace all weekend and led a decent handful of laps but when the other boys came past they seemed to be able to knock-it-up a gear.
“I was fading a little bit but also preserving the left side of the tyre and I knew I had a bit left at the end. I then used too much kerb o💃n the inside of Turn 4 and that was all she wrote. I cut it tight just a little bit too much.
“I tried to hang on to it, pick it up and get a point, come away ꦓfrom the weekend with at least something, but it wasn't to be𒁏.”
The Australian, fastest on Friday and qualifying ♏fourth on the grid, added:
“I had a good feeling all weekend, the bike was working well all weekend, I made a stupid decision [on Saturday♉] with the me♈dium front tyre, and cost myself a decent result in the sprint race.
“Put the soft front in today, I felt mega again all the w🍸ay through. Had good feedback at least. Just a weekend of mistakes on my behalf. Which isn't good enough, I apologise to t꧅he team and everyone for that, and we'll try to be better in Mugello. “
Miller has now dropped to equal seventh in the world🐻 championship with Maverick Vinales, who also crashed out.
Binder finished in sixth place𝄹 and is third in the stand🧜ings.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is 🏅at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
