Thailand MotoGP: Jack Miller - “I already know who the guys who are going to be really fast are”

Jack Miller was again attacking in the wet as he stayed on board in tricky conditions after a soggy start to the Thailand MotoGP.
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It was no surprise that the riders who are known for their ability in the wet soon found th♔emselves near the front of the race, and the usual suspects were no ⭕surprise to Miller, stating:

“When we come into🌼 the kind of …unknowns, of not being in the wet and then going out in the wet - I already know who the guys who are going to be really fast are.

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It’s generally - I’ll know I’ll be pretty quick, I know Miguel [Oliveira] will be really quick, I know Zarco will be really quick, we’re kin෴d of the three that can sort of adapt. I was a bit nervous about Petrux [Danilo Petrucci] I thought he might come thr🔯ough from the back end!”

The Ducati Lenovo rider left it all on track as he kept Oliveira honest up front once he p💖assed the Australian, but noted there were certain parts of the track where he was stronger and others there the bike felt like it was at a disadvantage, calling it a ‘lap of two halves’. Miller explained:

“ I go into turn three and honestly I’m calm , I’m right on him, coming out of the second last corner, that acceleration… and I go ‘he’s blowing you away!’ I was having this conversation in my head, you need t𒐪o pull your finger out kind of thing, but I was missing a little bit in those corners”.

Jack Miller MotoGP race, Thailand MotoGP 2 October
Jack Miller MotoGP race, Thailand MotoGP 2 October

For most of the race the #43 was able 🃏to claw time back and gave one final big push on 🃏the last lap, but by then Oliveira was out of touching distance -

“Miguel was definitely a lot faster through those last two sectors. Every lap I was losing ꦬa fair bit of time there, I could claw it back in sector one/sector two, but last lap I threw caution to the wind a little bit and 🌠had a bit more of a dig through that sector, a lot of movement and whatnot to try and put myself in range… but it wasn’t to be…he was on rails through there and I had a bit of a moment on the wetter part of the track and that’s all she wrote”.

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