MotoGP Australia: Jack Miller delights home fans: “Awesome to be back fighting at the front”

Jack Miller finished Friday practice for his home Australian MotoGP in second place, just 0.148s behind KTM team-mate Brad Binder.
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That means Miller is comfortably through to Qualifying 2, guaranteeing him a top 12 on the grid, having felt more comfortable with every lap around the Phillip ♎Isla♈nd circuit on KTM's new carbon fibre chassis.

“It feels awesome to be bac✃k fighting at the𝓰 front. Fingers crossed, we can give these [fans] a good show tomorrow,” Miller told MotoGP.com.

“I’m feeling good and the bike’s working really well... Everything we did to the bike, we were able to make it&🍨nbsp;a little bit more comfortable and find a little bit more speed.

“I never felt like I lost it, I just felt like ꦫall these other guys were able to up their game and I wasn't able to keep up there for a few races,” the Australian said of his mid-season lꦉull in results.

“But I've definitely been finding more speed, more confidence in these♛ last couple of races and today showed we've got some decent pace. So I feel if we keep working this way, it'll come. But it's nice to be back in that top three, even if it is on a Friday, and put us in good shape for tomorrow's race.

“The rear grip we have been able to find in the last couple of GPs has been really helping us out here and I’ve been saying it all year: the way the bike is through ꧅those high-speed changes of direction is pretꦑty agile and I’m able to find the line quite well.

“It is working pജretty good so far so let’s keᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚep that trajectory going.”

Miller🐟, who will be chasing his first podium since Jerez, \also r🎶evealed that his hot lap was far from perfect.

“I kind of fired it in quite hot into Turn 6 on my best lap. Lost a little bit of time. Turn 2 as wꦗel൩l, had Jorge on the inside so I couldn't quite get over the kerb as much as I would like.

“Even Turn 10, it was quite tricky ♓as you saw a few bikes go down and I kind of feel like I fumbled a little bit through there. So it's never a perfect lap. But I feel like we got a little bit left to tidy up.”

While practice took place in perfect weather,♈ conditions are forecast to deteriorate on Saturday, followed by gale-force winds on Sunday.

That has prompted a revised race weekend schedule, with the main grand p🍬rix race swapping places with the Sprint on Saturday a🎐fternoon.

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the 🐻foref൲ront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.

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