MotoGP Catalunya: "Pretty shitty" - Jack Miller reacts to KTM substitute idea
KTM currently has more riders than bikes for the 2024 season, with🍌 the addition of Pedro Acosta.
It has been suggested that instead of running riders for a full season, the Austrian factory could vary the GAS🌠GAS Tech3 line-up at different events or even, F💟1-style, give a reserve the chance to ride in some free practice sessions.
Miller, who joined Red Bull KTM at♌ the start of this year, said the current five rider/four seats conundrum “is a good problem to have. If you look back 12 months ago, they didn’t have that issue.
“S💧o it’s a fantastic issue to have, I’m happy for them [KTM]. But what they will do? Completely up to them. I just do my job!”
The Australian added that his contract for 2024 is clear and so &nb𒅌sp;"there doesn’t need to be" any conversation between him andꦯ KTM.
But pressed on the general idea of a manufacturer substituting or rotating MotoGP riders, Mill🗹er responded:
“I’m a racer so I want to race every weekend. To have a reserve rider? That sounds pretty🐻 shitty.
“It’s not Formula 1 where you can sub someone in for FP1. If you miss FP1, you’re s𒈔crewed! We don’t have a simulato♛r.
“[KTM] will find a𓆉 solution, I’m sur𒁏e they’ll find something, it’s up to them.”
MotoGP is rumoured to be allowing each factory six wild-card ꦯentries, up from the current three, next season.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and ha𝓀s seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
