Under-fire Jack Miller insists “I’m past rock bottom” as MotoGP axe looms
"I’ve got 10 races lꩵeft to enjoy wh🍸at has been my life for the past 10 or so years"
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller insists he is “trying to make the most of” what could be his final weeks as a M𒁃otoGP rider.
A despondent Miller admitted upon arrival at the British MotoGP tܫhat, after losing his 2025 KTM seatꦚ, he has “not one single contract” offer to remain next year.
Miller was fifth-fastest in Frida🍬y afternoon practice at Silve𒐪rstone before referring to his uncertain situation as “sombre times”.
🍌He told media including mahbx.com: “I’m past rock bottom. Rock bottom was about two weeks ago!
“I’m past that point now. I’ve got 10 races left to enjoy what has been my life for the past 10 or🥃 so years.
“I’m trying to make the most of it.”
Seats remaining in the 2025🦩 MotoGP rider line-up are swiftly being taken, so World Superbikes may enter the equation for Miller.
Jack Miller 'trying to build confidence'
Perhaps a heroic performance could salvage his future - and Friday at the British MotoGP was a step forward compared to🅷 the struggles that the KTM endured pre-summer break.
“I💯t was gusty. I never once felt nervous even putting the hard fronts on, w𒊎hich is rare here,” Miller assessed.
“The b𒆙ike works w𒅌ell, I put a decent lap in at the end.
“It’s weird, the soft tyre. It’s w🥃orking a different way. It’s gelling differently and it took almost three tyres to wrap my head around it.
“I got it sorted at the🌺 end, and I’m pretty happy with the day.
“It makes the weekend a lot 💦less stressful when you go straight through. And we haven’t been able to say that for a while.”
Miller added: “I’m trying to๊ build the confidence back after a r⛦eally difficult period.
“The bike🐲 felt similar to what I hopped off in Germany and Assen.
“I was able t𝓰o go away, th꧅ink about things, and put them into practice today.
“It’s early doo💃rs but I feel alright. I put the lap time in alone.
“Don’t get me wrong,🦂 we haven’t reinvented 🐈the wheel.
“There’s a bit of new stuff ♉but nothing to chang🧔e the geometry.
“Here, you can’t get a perfect bike because there’s s💝o many different elements to this track. It’s so bloody big!
“So you just put bandaids on every😼thing. I don’t know if it’s helping us but I can’t comp꧑lain.”
Teammate Brad Binder was seventh🌟 in Friday practice, representing a solid start for the manufacturer who have struggled in recent weeks.
Binder said: “This afternoon I p🐠ut in the first soft, and felt not good. I felt I wasn’t going anywhere. I was struggled to enter and exit corner.
“I kept it for two runs. The 𝓀first time attack was going qﷺuite okay, I had an issue with my ride-height device.
“I came in, 🧸and left everything for the last run. Luckily I♊ put a good lap in.
“I’ve got h🔜omework to do, we need to improve a lot.
“It was 15 corners of struggling.”
Neither factory KTM endured the chatter problem which has blighte🦹d them at stages of this season.
Miller said: “I feel like I haven’t had vibra🥃tions today.”
Binder s꧅aid: “Not today. It said so in the data but I didn’t feel it.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything froꦕm American sports, to football, to F1.
