The KTM rider was sent wide by an ܫearly overtake from the Aprilia, which included minor contactꦡ.

It sent Miller outside of the top 10, and he had the rain to thank for a late run to an eighth-plac🦩ed finish.

• Brad Binder: “Nothing fun about it! It was sketchy…🐷 roll and see what happens”

“The contact with Maverick? It sent me out,” Miller said. “The✨ issue was the metre of grass between the two asphalts.

“I was pretty nervous, not with hitting the grass but with what might happen after the grass, because of the rain in the past two days. The grജass was pretty sloppy.”

Miller used a c🦹ricket analogy: “You’re always pissed off when you get sent for six! 

“But it happened [on Saturday] with Johann Zarco. This track draws it in with its long corners where you take a while, if♛ you miss the line, it runs away on the outside.

“I understood that [Vinale♔s] said he was sucked in by Marquez. I’d been passed by Marquez. I went in for a second dip. The next minuไte, there was an Aprilia there.

“I had to stand it upꦓ. There was a bit of contact. I♎ had to properly stand it up and go off the track.

“He came up to apolog🌠ise. I accepte🍃d the apology. I understand he didn’t mean to do that.

“It’s one of those things. It’s racing. He went for a gap and felt that he ha꧃d better pace than me.

“These days, y🔯ou can see when it’s coming, the majority of the time. You have two options: keep turning in and see what happens, or stand it up. I chose the latter. There was no damage on the bike💜 - not like Fabio’s, anyway!”

Miller was delighted to see the weather turn, with eight laps remaining, so he could advantaꦺge of the newly-wet conditions and salvage a slightly better result than he feared.

His teammate Brad Binder, ⛎meanwhile, 🍎was on the podium.

Miller detailed his🦹 recovery from the Vinales incident: “I took time to get it turned. I got back to work, behind ♑Fabio, trying to chase him down.

“But I didn’t have any pace in the dry.

“It started getting a bit better mid-race, I felt like I was managing the rear enough so that I could make one or two overtakes towards the end. But ♌then we got lucky with the rain, that threw us a Hail Mary.

“I was able to take more risk than the others. I had plenty of bikes in front of 𓂃me, I could see how the grip was.

“I was able to make up a few spots.

“So it’s n𒆙ot all bad, we got lucky in thaꦉt sense. We salvaged a couple of points - it was looking pretty grim.”

Miller admitted he wanted heavier rain: “Yes, of course, the situation I was in, I hoped it w🀅ould piss down, it would be all-out 💝chaos!

“I wasn’t ex🌳pecting it when the white flags starting flashing. I thought ‘what’s this all about?’

“Then I got to the back𓂃 straight and saw what it was about.

“We got a warning light for the temperatures, saying it was getting cold when I was on my own. ꧑When I got back with the group it was alright.

“I had a lunge at Zarco, got him on the last lap. I was shaping up🐓 to Luca Marini but didn’t have enough to get him.

“It was one of those days - you want more, you di𝓀dn’t 💧get it, but we didn’t end up in the gravel.

“It was tricky conditions ෴and we learned a lot, in termsဣ of set-up.

“We live to fight another day.”