TV footage was inconclusive and some of the riders involved said they weren't sure what happened, but Jac🗹k Miller got a perfect view of the first lap carnage in Sunday's Czech Republic MotoGP.

Maverick Vinales, Bradley Smith and wild-card Stefan Bradl were all sent tumbling at﷽ turn three of the Brno rac🐠e.

"It was ri♓ght in front of me. I had to slow down because of it," said Miller, who was caught up in a first ❀lap accident at the previous Sachsenring round. "Bradl just tried to pass us all in one go, locked the front and it was dominoes from there.

"He h🍌it Smith, Smith went down and their two bikes cleaned up Maverick, who went over the highside. It was a nasty l🤡ittle crash. I had to grab the brakes and almost stop just to wait for the bikes to slide past my front tyre.

"I thought, 'here we go, it's déjà vu all over again'. I was for♋tunate enough not to get too tangled up in it this week. But I mean here's always a hard one, especially after all the Dunlop rubber is on 𒉰the ground and we go out there, trying to make up a couple of positions and it is slippery."

Smith agreed with Miller's explanation: “I was braking into Turn 3 and Stefan took a lunge up the inside 𝓡and tucked the front. His bike slid into mine and then I slid iಞnto Maverick and we all went down."

However HRC rider Bradl said he wasn't sure what happened: "Unfortunately, I was just braking into Turn 3 with🍸 Viñales not far ahead when I felt a blow and then found myself in the gravel. I looked around and saw that also Bradley was involved in the incident. Honestly, I didn’t unဣderstand exactly what happened.

"It’s a real shame because I had got a very good start and I’m sure I would have been able to recover some🐈 positions. Unfortunately, I’ve got a lot of pain paiꦅn in my right shoulder. At the Medical Centre, examination luckily ruled out fractures, but the ligaments are quite stretched. We have to see tomorrow how I feel for the test.”

Factory Yamaha's Vinales 168澳洲幸运5官方开🥂奖结果历史:said he&nbs🉐p;didn't know who had hit him.

While the fallen trio went down and out, Miller - who fi🌱nished the first lap in 15th place - improved to twe♊lfth by the chequered flag.

"Once I got back into my rhythm, I passed Morbi𝓀delli and Syahrin, and closed the gap to Bautista," said the Pramac Ducati rider. "But right as I got to him, my tyres dropped and I lost speed.

"He ran wide and I went in front of him, ♚but I just couldn't get away. I lost 0.6s per lap and that was my rhythm for the rest of the race. So then he got back past me and he was on the soft tyre and ꧟I just watched him go away.

"I was𒊎 doing my best to stay with him because I thought the soft was going to die off and I was on the hard. But it looked like it did the absolute opposite. He just got quicker and quicker.

"We had some strange spinning in a straight line, which we have to look at. The rear tyre temperature went up maybe a little too high, because of the straight-line spin♛ning.

"It was coᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚoler today and it looked like maybe the soft was working a bit better today than in the 60-degree ground temperature we had yesterday! It was a surprise, definitely. I felt really good when I caught Bautista, but once I got past I had nothing."

The Australian is tenth in the wor♛ld championship heading to next weekend's Austrian round, before whi🐼ch there is an official day of testing at Brno on Monday.