Jack Miller on Alex Rins’ big move: “When that factory seat comes knocking…”

Jack Miller has backed Alex Rins’ decision to go to Yamaha next season, insisting MotoGP riders “don’t often” get a second chance in a factory seat.
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Rins wi𝄹ll exit LCR Honda and move al꧒ongside Fabio Quartararo as one of Yamaha’s two riders for the 2024 season, his second factory role after representing Suzuki only last season.

Miller, who was also a satellite Honda rider until moving to✃ Ducati in 2018, then landing their factory seat in 2021, appreciates the lure of one of MotoGP’s more prestigious bikes.

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Asked if🧜 he understood Rins’ decision having done similarly, Miller said: “To a degree. But, I mean, the situations were different.

“I was a B-cust𒀰omer with the [Marc VDS Racing Team]. Then the first year at LCR was com🔯pletely different.

“I saw how they were with Cal Crutchlow. They were very open, they used him quite a considerable amount in ter🌳ms of testing and giving him parts.

“But when that factory seats comes knocking…

“You don’t often get two bites at the apple, going from a factory to a satellite t꧂eam then getting another chance at a factory.

“So when 🀅that opportunity arose I assume he grabbed it with both hands.”

Jack Miller, MotoGP, Dutch MotoGP, 24 June
Jack Miller, MotoGP, Dutch MotoGP, 24 June

Miller and Brad Binder, KTM’s factory duo, have been the riders to most consistently threaten 🅺the dominan𓄧t Ducatis this season.

This weekend at the British MotoGP, Miller reܫturns to the scene where he scored a podium finish on a Ducati last year.

“It’s p🌱robably one of the better o💛nes on the calendar,” he said about the Silverstone circuit.

“You caꦑn never get the perfect set-up here because there are hard-braking ꦏzones and fast-flowing corners.

“When it’s 🍷like that, like Jerez, we’re better-off. Not too much load on the front, hard braking on the straight. When you don’t need the perfect set-up, it’s better for us.”

New rules have been brought in to begin ♓from this weeke🌠nd, including regarding tyre pressure.

The Tyre Pressure Monitoring System will give a first-time offender a warning, before a three-second time penalty for a second offence, a six-second time penalty for a third offence🔴, and a 12-second time penalty for a fourth offence.

“I know, from tඣhe Ducati, that it was more critical. I do🍨n’t notice it as much on the KTM,” Miller said.

“Chatting to theꦺ engineers and understanding their feedback, I had concern when I heard about the rules and penalties. They were reassuring, they said ‘don’t worry about it’. F💯ingers crossed, they are right.

“We should be inside that window, no dramas.

“I know that the Ducati functioned well on low tyre pressure, whereas ours doesn’t. Thꦉe KTM uses the front tyre in a different way.

“Having it so low doesn’t give us the benefit.

“Weꦬ’ll have to wait and see how much it affects the other bik🦹es.”

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