Jack Miller salvages top Yamaha result, feared loose fairing would “deploy” at 330km/h

Jack Miller takes top Yamaha result despite a lo𓆉oseꦛ fairing in the Thai MotoGP.

Jack Miller
Jack Miller

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller battled a loose fairing to finish as the top M1 rider on his Pramac Yamaha debut in Sunday’s Thai MotoGP.

Frustrated afꦺter crashing out of sixth in the Sprint, the Australia﷽n settled into the same position for the first half of the grand prix.

But a sweltering race suddenly became a lot more complicated from 𝔉lap 8 of꧙ 26.

“I had 🅰a little issue with the fairing, which is when I lost touch with the front group,” Miller explained. “One of the clips popped out and the whole fairing started coming loose.

“Aero is crucial these days, and I was struggling with𝓀 turning and carrying corner speed especially i𒊎n what was my strongest sector, Turns 4 and 5.

“On top of that, I was cooking because all the hot air was being directed straight at me, instead of out th🌳e back of the bike. It made a hot race even hotter.”

Miller not only had burns on his legs but also his inne🔯r arms.

“Yeah, just from trying to hold the fairing in 🍌place on the straight,” he revealed.

“When you’d get up to high speed it would pop out even more. I was getting nervous that doing 330 kilometres an hour down the back straight it 𒅌was going to ‘auto deploy’. So I was trying to hold it together as much as I could!

“I had a couple of off-track excursions once that fairing popped out,𒅌 I kept hooking my knee on it as I’d go to tip into tur꧒n 4.

Jack Miller, 2025 Thai MotoGP
Jack Miller, 2025 Thai MotoGP

“So it was a salvage job, but I’d felt reall🔴y comfortable behind that first group [up until the fairing came loose]. Then we stuck in there, gritted our teeth and were able to br💞ing home a couple of points.”

Jack Miller 'throwing caution to the wind'

Miller finished in the wheeltracks of Fabio di Giannantonio, backing out of a late attack when his soft rear tyre ran out ofꦺ gri꧋p with half a lap to go.

"I was on Diggia, trying to chase him down and I was driving [out of corners] really well until last lap, exit of corner 7. I was t𝄹hrowing caution to the wind on the tyre consumption by that stage. 

"You know you’re nearly home, but basically she cracked through to what I guess would be close to the base rubber❀ and [makes screeching noise] started spinning. I said, ‘oh well, at least we made it’. We tried our best."

Team director Gino Borsoi said: "It's a rea🌸l shame that Jack had that issue with the fairing; otherwise, his result could have been significantly better.

“How🍎ever, while everything was running smoothly, he showed he was very competitive, maintaining a great pace that allowed him to stay close to the front.”

After two days of testing and then the Buriram gra💞nd prix weekend, Miller is now keen to try his M1 at new tracks.

“Looking forward to Argentina, Texas and Qatar, I think we ca🏅n have a good crack at all three of them,” he said.

Team-mate Miguel Oliveira finished h༺is first grand prix f🎃or Yamaha in 14th, with Monster Yamaha riders Fabio Quartararo 15th and Alex Rins 17th.

With Ducati winning, Aprilia fifth, Honda seventh and KTM eighth, Yamaha left Thaila🔯n🉐d playing catch-up to its rivals in the constructors’ standings.

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