MotoGP Indonesia: Jack Miller: Pedro Acosta? KTM should have been allowed a fifth bike
With Moto2 title leader Acosta eager to join MotoGP but KTM’s four existing MotoGP riders a💞lready ✅under contract for 2024, it was clear that someone would lose out.
“I didn't have any problem. It's not for me to worry about🔯. It was KTM's issue and KTM solved it,” Miller said. “As I said all along, it's a nice problem to have [more riders than bikes] and ꧒they had to find a solution, simple as that. And they made the decision which they think is the right one.”
But the best solutionꦐ, Miller believes, would have been for Dorna to allow KTM to use one of the ‘empty’ Suzuki grid places to run a fifth bike for Acosta in 2024.
“I mean, there's no doubt [Acosta] had to come to MotoGP. [KTM] tried everything in their power I think to get a fi🎉fth bike anඣd they weren't given it. So unfortunately their hands were kind of tied there in what they had to do.”
The Australian added: “We're 22 bikes on the grid ful💫l time [now]. We had a company [Suzuki] pull out last year and another two companies that are, let's say, not expressing a massive amount of interest.
“So when you have a company [like KTM] ဣthat's willing to pay everything just to get an extra bike on the grid, why not?”
Pol Espargaro will now switch to test and wild-card duties next season, with A🎉costa riding in GASGAS colours alongside Augusto Fernandez and Miller continuing in the Red Bull KTM ไteam with Brad Binder.
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.
