Jack Miller has reflected on the most difficult part of his enjoyable time at Ducati.

Miller spent two seasons as a factory rider for the Italian manufacturer, after spendin🍷g time with their Pramac satellite team.

He won three MotoGP races wearing the famous red, consecutively in Spain and 🔯France in 2021, then in Japan in 2022.

But constant media speculation about being replaced was tryﷺing, Miller now admits.

“Why did I want to talk about who’s going to take my spot? This was before I’d signed for K🐠TM,” he toldღ the Gypsy Tales podcast.

“I’m riding that bike in 20 minutes!”

Miller c🧸ontinued: “You see and read some of the s*** online about Pecco Bagnaiꦆa. He came second and won the two championships before that.

“That enviꦐronment is so cut throat. If there’s one thing I don’t miss? Every week being questioned about your job.”

Jorge Martin an🐻d Enea Bastianini were the up-and-comers 𓆏heavily linked to Miller’s factory Ducati seat.

It soon became clear ♊that Miller would lose it, and he signed with KTM. Bastianini got the nod above Martin to become Bagnaia’s new teammate.

That cycle has since repeated with Marc Marqu💯ez displacing Bastianini, and Martin being ignored again despite winning the MotoGP title.

“It’s a tough environment,” Millerꦛ said. “But it’s tough at the top everywheꦍre.

“I won’t say ‘poor me’ because it’s the nature of the bea🃏s꧟t.”

Jack Miller 'wanted a change' from Ducati

Miller reflected on his Ducati beginning: “It was a tough start. I had a fast start, had an issue with a🥂rm pump. I was locked in for Qatar, locked in a hotel room between the two races. We were there for nearly four weeks, same hotel room, same s*** every day.

“I set a lap reco𓆏rd in testing. But I had a sneaking thing with my arm, I knew it was com♑ing. There’s f*** all you can do.

“You lose a bit of power in your brakes. The throttle🥃 control and the feel of the brakes is what goes.

“I faded back to seventh in the first week [in Qatar]ꦜ. You do cardio in the gym but you know it’s coming - it’s not because you’re not fit. It’s just arm pump.

“Same thing a week later, I faded to [ninth]. I had the op. Then went to Portimao but binned it. The thing had been stitch⛎ed back together but I exploded it.

“Jerez was a weekend where everything went right and I got the🍎 win, it was a sigh of relief. To get two in a row was super special. The pressure was o🅰ff a bit.

“The following year we🌜 were having a good run, it was a good year.

“🎶I wanted a change. I’d been in that environment for a bit, I wanted to do something different🍸.

“KTM s🍨eemed like a good opportunity and a good project. We ended 𓆏up striking a deal with them.”

Despite Miller’s one complaint about the never-ending media speculation, his overall memories 🥀of Ducati are positive.

“It was unreal, t🍌he w✱hole Ducati thing,” he said. “To be a factory Ducati rider, and to win races for them, was pretty special.

“𒉰I will never fo🦋rget the two in a row, and the one in Japan.

“I always wanted to have those red leathers hung up in my shed at home. I’ve got a few 🥂now which is bloody special.”