Aragon MotoGP: Jack Miller 'happy to walk away, told Brad don't worry about it'
Jack Miller's Teruel MotoGP race lasted less than two corn✃ers when he was hit from behind by rookie Brad Binder, sending them both tumbling thro✤ugh the gravel.
The pair started 14th (Miller) and 🌜15th (Binder) on the grid, but the KTM rider was caught out by the pack ahead bunching up on entry to Turn 2.
Jack Mꦐiller's Teruel MotoGP race lasted less than two corners ജwhen he was hit from behind by rookie Brad Binder, sending them both tumbling through the gravel.
The pair started 14th (Miller) and 15th (Binder) on the grid, but the KTM🍸 rider was caught out by the pack ahead𝓰 bunching up on entry to Turn 2.
Binder, who took full respon🍎sibility for the incident and immediate🐬ly apologised, later received a Long Lap pena🍨lt꧒y from the FIM Stewards, to be served at the next race in Valencia.
Not the start that and both had in mind
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The pair crashing out at T🦩urn 2 on the opဣening lap!
"Not much to say really. Really exciting race, lasted all of two corners," Miller said𝔉. "I got a decent start, got to the inside, passed about three blokes, was doing nothing really strange but got hit fr♏om the rear and the bike sort of half-highsided me and then kept shaking.
"It got worse a♚n༒d worse and I ended up going into the gravel and crashing. Not ideal.
"Thankfully I'm OK for how bad I tumbled. Both shoulder [pads] were destroyed, both knees, every bit of the suit was destroyed. So it definitely did its job.൩ But just happy to walk away fro🔯m that one."
Binder was seen putting his arm around Miller in the gravel trap as the Pramꦏac Ducati rider tried to work out what had happened.
"I knew I must have got hit because it 🌌wasn't a normal 🔜highside or anything like that. I just stood up and saw Brad and I was like, 'what the f**k?'" Miller said.
"I got my helmet off and asked him 'what happened' and he said, 'I don't know man, I'm sorry'. So I told him don't worry about it. 🌄That's racing sometimes, especially here where it's so tight in the corners as well.
"When I watched it back, it just looked like he misjudged the group's speed and I was just the unluc🥀ky one to be in that spot.🔴 He needs to come to his senses sometimes, but we've all done it. I've done it, so I'm not going to sit here and curse him out. It is what it is."
Miller has now suffered four DNFs this season, o🐎f which only Jerez🎶 was his own accident. A tear-off was sucked into his air intake at Misano, followed by an engine failure at Le Mans and now the tangle with Binder at Aragon.
All of which has left the Australian ninth in the world ch⛦ampionship, with three rounds to go.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the fo𒅌refront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
