MotoGP Assen: Jack Miller "rotates" KTM, crosswind “legend in some corners, beginner in others!”

Jack Miller rotated his KTM more towards the rear and dealt with a fierce afternoon crosswind on his way to a strong third place during Friday practice for the Dutch MotoGP at Assen.
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Just a♉s on Sunday at the Sachsenring, the Australian was the top non-Ducati but this time just 0.155s behind VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi, with Pramac’💯s German Grand Prix winner Jorge Martin in between.

“Happy enough with the day, steady start, but we were able to find our feet relatively quickly,” Miller s𝓀aid. “We changed the bike💯, quite a big step today, just trying to work on the issues that we had in Sachsenring and Mugello.

“In the high-speed corners I was not having as much rear contact, and missing a little bit of drive grip once the bike 🅠was sat up and moving.

“My whole career I've ridden a bike that's very down in the front, compared to a lot of th🐽e other guy꧑s that ride the bike, whether it's Ducati or Honda or now KTM," Miller explained.

“So we’re just trying to rotate the bike back around, buꩲt also keep my body positionꦡ in the right spot that makes me comfortable and able to push.

“We tried something very similar in Mug♚ello, but I couldn't find a way to get com𒀰fy. We were in a hurry there and obviously going into Q1 made the weekend a little more stressful.

“So it was nice꧃ to get a decent base and then try it again here. We played with it a little bit more and got myself to where ♈I'm comfortable.

“Now it feels good [in the high-speed corners],” Miller added. “And the bike’s reacting really well once I put it on the other side of the tyre i꧂n the changes of direction.”

However, accounting for the crosswi🐬nd was an added complicatio🍃n.

“It was a bit tricky this afternoon with that crosswind, turn six was pretty dodgy, the frဣont was bouncing around quite a bit, but then turn seven was unr⭕eal!

“You just let go - didn't even touch the brakes -𝓰 just hang off the side of t🌼he bike and she’d blow in. Makes you feel like a legend in some corners and like a beginner in others!”

Te൲am-mate Brad Binder is also directly into Qualꦛifying 2, in eighth.

Peter has been in the pad♎dock 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.

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