Jack Miller: You can't really create a nice slide

Jack Miller: “It's really changed the s🎐tyle of MotoGP in the last three-four gran𒉰d prix"

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Chatter or vibration from the rear wheel has been a surprise performance issue affecting the likes of Ducati and KTM during the early rounds of the 2024 MotoGP season.

Various Ducati riders have experienced the problem this year, 🥃but the Desmosedicis then seemed untroubled at Jerez, romping to th🙈e top five places in the Sunday grand prix.

By contrast, KTM was among the 🌜worst affected in Spain.

The reason behind the emergence of chatt♐er is unclear, but one theory is that it is linked to increase🐈d grip from this year’s Michelin rear tyre. It’s an idea backed up by some 2023-spec Ducatis suffering with vibration this year.

Whatever the cause, KTM’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller explained what he feels has changed on track:

“It seems to be that with this ‘new’ rear tyre we're suffering a little bꦏit more with twitching,” Miller said at Jerez. “You can't really create a nice slide, it's either pumping or it's hooked up, or it's nothing.

“So we’ve been jus༒t trying to make the bike a little bit more stable, trying to run some more rounded lines.”

“Let's say the [rear tyre] casing feels similar but the rubber feels grippier,” Miller added. “That's the reason we're going nearly a second a lap quicker everyw❀here [this year]!

“When the casing kind of lets go, it'll start pumping likౠe mad, because the surface grip's there.

“It's a fantastic tyre when it's performing. It's just trying to understand how we can keep it in the window to keep it performing, and basicall🦂y rethinking the way we ride.

“Looking back to Turn 1 in Austin, which in the past has kind of been a ‘V’ corner, guys were almost running Moto2 lines, running out to the kerbs on the exit whic๊h we hadn't seen before.

“It's rꦫeally changed the style of MotoGP in the last three-four grand prix. And I think that's something we need to learn.”

Rou﷽n🦩d five is at Le Mans this weekend, a race Miller won as a Ducati rider in 2021.

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