MotoGP Le Mans: Jack Miller: "I apologise to the team"
After falling from third place when he was caught out by the medium front tyre on lap 2 of the Sprint, Mil🐈ler retuned to the soft for Sunday’s main ꦐevent.
The Australian took the fight to early leader Marc Marquez, putting his Red Bull KTM into the leadไ from lap 3 to 10.
But just as Miller was perhaps starting to smell the sea breeze from the boat pictured on the side of his pit box, a bet with wife Ruby for when he takes a debut RC16 win, his rivals🐷 “s🅺eemed to be able to knock it up a gear”.
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Miller dropped swiftly 🃏back to seventh, and🙈 spent the closing stages in a battle with team-mate Brad Binder, before falling with three laps to go.
“Obviously not tౠhe 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 t༒oo much kerb on 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 from the w♒eekend with at l൩east something, but it wasn't to be.”
The Australian, fastes🌄t on Friday and qualif𝔉ying 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 medium fr🔯ont tyre, and cost myself a decent result in the sprint race.
“Put the soft front in today, I felt mega again all the way through. Had good fꩲeedback at least. Just a weekend of mistakes on my behalf. Which isn't good enough, I apologise to the team and everyone for that, and we'll try to be better in Mugello. “
Miller has now dropped to equal seventh in tꦫhe world 𒈔championship with Maverick Vinales, who also crashed out.
Binder finished in si🌊xth place and is third i🥃n the standings.
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.
