Catalunya MotoGP: Miller: Lorenzo confident with 'collapsing' front

After Jorge Lorenzo's second Ducati MotoGP victory in as many races, at Catalunya on Sunday, his fellow Desmosedici riders are sure to be pouring through the data to try and find🅺 out where the Spaniard is gaining.

The braking area on the slippery Barcelona circuit was 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:𝔉soon identified by team-mate Andrea Dovizioso, straight after the race.

Miller: Lorenzo confident with 'collapsing' front

After Jorge Lorenzo's secon✃d Ducati MotoGP victory in as many 🌼races, at Catalunya on Sunday, his fellow Desmosedici riders are sure to be pouring through the data to try and find out where the Spaniard is gaining.

The braking area on the slippery Barcelona circuit was 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:soon identified by team-mate Andrea 🐷Dovizioso, straight after the race.

Bu⭕t while Dovi suspected Lorenzo was benefitting from less rear-wheel slides in the braking zone, Pramac's Jack Miller believes 🍨it was the way Lorenzo kept confidence in the 'collapsing' soft front tyre that held the key.

"[Lorenzo] wasn't too much wheels-in-line. Hജe was sliding into tu🌌rn one a little bit more than me yesterday," Miller explained at Monday's official post-race test, which Lorenzo and Dovizioso did not attend.

"It was just the way [Lorenzo] was adapting to the [soft front tyre], because yo🔜u couldn’t really use the medium and the hard tyre too well.

"But he was using the [soft] and lett🌼ing it collapse the whole way and basically had confidence with it collapsing.

"Whereas the rest of us - or myself in particular - were not sജquishing the tyre all the way. Because I'm used to when yoไu squish it, normally you're going to end in the air.

"So🌼 we've been working on t🐬hat today and I think it's helped us with the outright race pace."

Asked to confirm when the 'collapsing' feeling from the soft front tyre occurs, the Australian r♎eplied:

"Straight braking. It just goes almost flat and yo🐬u have a feeling like the tyre is deforming under you. You feel the handlebars moving a little bit. But it's just something you have to ride through. It's strange!"

Miller, who retired with technica🅠l problems in the race, had set the eighth fastest lap time when the team packed up just after lunch.

"We🐷 tried to work on myself and a few different things fo꧙r the bike. But we're on last year's bike, so there's not much development.

"Here was a good place to test because we struggled, but we got ꧂quicker and qui🃏cker as the weekend went on. Missing the [private] test before the grand prix probably didn’t help us."

The 🐼next event will be the Dutch TT at Assen, where Miller took his MotoGP win in 2016💮.

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