Ja📖ck Miller made a promising start to the French MotoGP weekend with a close seventh place (+0.252s) on old rubber during Friday morning's FP1.

But the Australian was caught out by a medium front tyre and fell at the start of FP2, which 🐈appears to have damaged a sensor, meaning his Pramac Ducati behaved strangely for the rest of the session.

A further fall followed and Miller was the only rider not to improve𝕴 on his morning time, although he holds a provisional Qualifying 2 place courtesy of tenth overall and is confident, with the sensor fixed, 'I've got a lot more left in me'.

"We already knew [the medium front] was going to be a bit on the limit, but we've only got five front softs, so we used the medium just✃ to see what it was going to be like. I really tried to push it on the outlap but I just couldn't seem to get the tempera🐭ture," Miller said.

"I went into tur𒁃n two no quicker than normal, b💎ut as soon as I got to the apex it just sort of went away on me. It caught me a little by surprise.

"I came in, the boys fixed the bike, and I put on thꦚe 20 lap [soft tyre] from this morning. Went back out and I had some weird vibrations and weird feeling with the bike.

"I wasn't too sure if it was because we had such a used front t🍨yre and newer rear or what. So I came back in, put two new tyres in, including a soft rear, but I just couldn't get the bike to stay on line.

"I think the knock [from the fall] caused one of the sensors in t🌞he bike to stop working.

"I was missing apexes everywhere and it was just a bit of a shit fight to be honest. I was just struggling a🥃s opposed to this morning where I was really consistent with used tyres."

Miller was reluctant to give details of the sensor ⭕issue, only that "it was coming from the rear" which could mean the engine behaviour or perhaps the salad box.

"I can't say too much. W🌟e’ll have it sort🌠ed for tomorrow.

"This is a track I like and it the works well for the Ducati. This morning, with used tyres I was still able to put in really good lap times. We [changed] preload for the last run and, ꦉwith 18 something laps on the tyre, it felt ꦓbetter than the first exit.

"We'll have to wait and see what the weather wil♏l do tomorrow. We got 10th today but I don't꧑ want to be scraping into Qualifying 2 like that. Like I said, I did that lap time this morning with a lot of laps on the tyre. I've got a lot more left in me…"

Rookie team-mate Francesco Bagnaia was twelfth fastest i☂n FP2.