On paper, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller didn’t have much to smile about during his final KTM MotoGP season.

The Australian finished just 14th in the world championship, wit෴hout a podium for the first time since 2018.

The season began promising at KTM with team-mate Brad Binder claiming his only podiums of the year in the Qatar opener, then ꧃Miller 5th and top KTM next time in the Portimao Sprint.

The following Portug🦹uese Grand Prix produced a KTM 3rd-4th-5th courtesy of Pedro Acosta, Binder and Miller.

However, 🌳Ducati soon pulled away, while Miller wouldn’t break into the top ten again until Misano. And then only once more, in the Buriram rain, before the end of his RC16 career.

“Some positives, no negatives,” insisted Miller during an interview with mahbx.com at the penultimate Sepang round.

“Everything's a learning expe🦋rience. I✨t's not been the easiest time for me, but also not the worst.

“Anytime you're going through diff🅘icult m🎉oments, I think it makes you into a better, more rounded rider.

“So I try and take away the learning aspect of it all. What we've learned over the years deal🐽ing with the struggles, the difficult things with the bike and also just trꦆying not to ever let it get us down too much.

“Just focus on the things that we can change. And not so mu💎ch worry about the things we can't change.”

“We were too slow to react”

In the earlier years of the KTM project, too many new parts were thꦐrown at the RC1🙈6 during a season, leaving the riders under-prepared for the races.

That resulted in a more careful system of development, bolstered by the arrival of superstar test rider Dani Ped🦹rosa, with only proven advances making 🍸it to the race team.

But the pendulum seemed to swing too far the other way at the star🍃t of 2024, leaving KTM playing catch-up in adapting the RC16 to the revise🤡d rear tyre.

“I wouldn't say [the change of rear tyre] knocked things off course because changeඣ is inevitable. You can't expect to get the same tyres year after year after year,” Miller said.

“Change is happening. And I don't think our way to react, our set up and in terms of what we were able to do to change the way things were going withꦆ the bike… We were too slow to react, let's say.

“We tried our best with the thinཧgs that we💧re in our power. We just didn't react in time.”

All factories prioritise their fastest riders but, havi🦹ng fallen behind Acosta and Binder in terms of results,🦋 the ‘reaction’ issue was exacerbated for Miller by the post-Mugello news that he was out of a KTM seat for 2025.

“Especially when we're not getting updates and so🔯 on and so forth. You're kind of just trying to adapt yourself and ride around issues," Miller said.

“That's something I've learned from this year especially, more than last year, is just try to make the best out of the situation.ꦯ Try to give our maximum on the bike and make sure I'm bringing my best weeওk in, week out as well.”

The most obvious example of Miller’s 2024 🉐issues came during practice at Motegi when TV cameras filmed a massive amount of chatter from the rear of his KTM.

“That⛄’s been my life for the💎 last ten months,” Miller said at the time. “It’s been doing it ever since we put this [revised rear] tyre in and I haven’t been able to find a solution - as you saw.

“The solution is trying to ride through it, but it’s like a wall you keep hittꦆing yo💃ur head against.”

Miller “felt an immediate boost” with carbon fibre chassis

One of the areas where Miller and Tech3's Augusto Fernandez fell behind in bike development during the 𝔍season was the RC16’s unique carbon fibre chassis.

Fernandez was never as comfortable with the carbon fibre as he had been with the previous steel frame. However Miller “felt an immediate boost” from its debut at the 2023 🍰Misano test and still believes the technology has “great potential”.

“I wouldn't say that the carbon fibre chassis is the issue,” Miller said. “[It’s just that] myself a🅷nd Augusto are still on the very first version of the carbon fibre chassis.

“I think there's great potential there t𒆙o exploit. The possibilities are endless. But obviously you need to continue to develop these kinds of things and there's some things that maybe we haven't worked hard enough on, let's say.

“Whether it be with the tes🐻t team, whether it be with having the chance to work on that. Or whether the carbon chassis its🏅elf is really difficult to modify, that's the only thing I can sort of put that down to.

“But there was a reason why we start🍰ed using [the carbon fibre chassis] and that was simply because the 🐲turning was better.

“♎So again, change is inevitable. You need to ℱkeep going.

“You can't say that the steel chassis is better beca🌱use as soon as I tried the carbon chassis, I felt an immediate boost and from the back end of la꧅st year, it really helped us.

“Like I said, it just needed some more fine-tuning and some update💙s.

“The [other] boys are on a newer version - Pedro and Brad - and it se🎃ems that they're both relatively happy. They’re not taking [the updated chassis] out of their bikes, so it means that they made a step in the right direction.”

Miller will return to an aluminium frame at Pramac Yamaha next season, as used during his opening 🉐eight years in MotoGP with 🍒Honda and Ducati.