MotoGP Assen: Jack Miller: “You’re paid millions to be motorcycle racers, not drag companies through the dirt”

Miller made headlines after last weekend’s German MotoGP when he hit out at several riders, including Marc M🍰arquez, for continued criticism of their machines.
🐠While it’s been less noticeable from those currently riding Ducati or KTM machinery, riders from other brands have at times been very forthright in their critic🦩ism of the manufacturer they ride for.
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Whether 🏅it’s the overall performance of their machine, a lack of development or a lack of direction, those are some of the areas of criticism that have been directed at their companies from different riders.
Miller didn’t want to get into naming specific people, but it’s thought that riders f🐈rom Aprilia, Yamaha an🦩d Honda were the target of his words, before he later confirmed that Marquez was one of them.
Doubling down on the points he made last weekend, Miller told : "I could probably have worded my 𒈔Australian a bit better, but 100% I stand by what I said.
"At the end of the day we’re all motorcycle races and we’re paid to be motorcycle racers. If the bike is not where it should be, you’re paid to fix it. That’s⭕ your job. If you’re a construction worker, a road worker, whatever, if you’re constantly complaining about your job and how bad it is, you’re going to get t▨he sack aren’t you.
"These companies are spending mul👍ti-million amounts of dollars to be here racing motorcycles, o𝄹nly for some people to drag their names through the dirt. For the sport is that healthy? No!
"Ducati are at the top at the moment because they’ve been put through the ringer for 12 years. They 🔯didn’t get there overnight. It wasn’t that they just got a magic bike and that was it.&nbs🅺p;
"They worked and pulled themselves out of what was a really dire situation in 2011-2012. People forget about that. A lot of people want to write of🦩f a bike that won a championship three years ago. Then people want to talk rubbish a♋bout a bike that won the championship four years ago.
"At the end of ꩲthe day you’re a motorcycle rider and you job is to come here and do you꧙r job. Not to complain about the motorbike. Not to drag the company that pays you really well through the dirt. It makes no sense to me. Like I said, it’s not healthy."
When pressed on particular names that he directed his w𒉰ords towards, Miller said that a multitude of riders have been making such complaints, meaning any name could have been used.
Foꦐllowing last Sunday’s race at Sachsenring, one of the words Miller used to describe riders with was ‘princess’, while also telling t🐽hose same riders to just focus on their job
Miller🦂 has since said: "It was referred to a question. You can put whoever you want on there. But the question was that some people h🍨ave a really bad bike. And I have no doubt that their bike is not a great position. But you can put whoever you want."