British MotoGP at Silverstone: Jack Miller ‘can’t feel anything’ with new aero, grateful not to be ‘locked out’...
Making headlines throughout the British MotoGP at Silverstone has been Ducati’s new ‘Stegos🔯aurus-like’ aero package on the rear of its bikes.
Whether it's the factory team, Pramac, Gresini or the Mooney VR46 outfit, Ducati has given all of their riders the chance to test the new aero packag🌃e.
And while Enea Bastianini claimed it was helping him under braking fol𒊎lowing Friday practice🍸, Miller is unconvinced after stating he feels ‘no benefit’.
Miller said: "I don’t know about benefit. It’s definღitely not the easiest thing on the eye but they seem to be happy with it. I mean, I’m the donkey that sits on the bike.
"In my honest opinion I can’t feel anything. Except I just have to watch it with my leg when I put my🐎 leg over the bike. I can’t feel anything while riding. We need to analyse it more obviously, but for the moment nothing."
When asked if he wanted to test the new wings after they first appe🌊ared on Bast🐎ianini’s Gresini Ducati and Jorge Martin’s Pramac machine, Miller stated: "They [just] gave it to me."
Wꦯhile it might not be making a difference to the feeling he has aboard his GP-22 machine, Miller is j🌃ust glad to be receiving parts and not being ‘locked out’ of data, something that has happened before when riders have agreed to join another team following the current season.
"At the end of the day they wer🍎e straight up with me," said Miller when talking about Ducati providing him with the same treatment as all its other riders. "Once I told them [I was leaving] we had this discussion and as you say, it’s very unusual for a factory to give a rider updates especially when the rider is leaving.
"But they’ve been 100% honest with me throughout the whole lot and al🌠so you see what they do with all the ♈bikes they have on the grid.
"They give them the max❀imum that they c𝓰an. It’s in Ducati’s DNA and it’s a massive thing from Gigi [Dall’Igna] and they are really pushing for that.
"On that side of things I greatly appreciate it because there is nothing worse than not getting updates or𒐪 being locked out of data etc. It’s nice to have that, for sure."
Zarco ready for Silverstone ‘present’ - can he take his first MotoGP win?
Nearly a tenth clear of Maverick Vinales, Zarco’s main chall🎐engers for v🃏ictory are potentially all on the second row as Fabio Quartararo will start directly ahead of Francesco Bagnaia and Aleix Espargaro.
Still bidding for his first win in MotoGP, Zarco said ‘why no✱t’ at the prospect of taking home the spoils at Silverstone. 🐈;
"From Friday I’ve been quite fast and I was able to build a good step from Friday to Saturday. It means that I have more chances than usual to think about the𒀰 victory." added the two-time Moto2 champion.
"The pole position was a good confirmation and also the pace in FP4 was quite good. W💝hy not hope for this victory.
"I will not fully focus on it [to avoid] making any mistakes. Let’s see how the others will be in the race. I hope I wilꦚl get this advantage with the hard rear and get this nice present at the end."
