Jack Mille🎀r has labelled world champion Marc Marquez “a master tactician” but felt his qualifying strategy at Sepang “bit him on the arse” as the Spaniard’s waiting for Fabio Quartararo ultimately led to a spectacular crash.

Marquez will start Sunday’s Malaysian Grand Prix from eleventh on the grid thanks to the fall, which Miller believes was down to the left side of his rear tyre cooling down. The Catalan didnt' mention th🍰is, saying it was because of an overly aggressive approach to turn two.

Miller wasn’t far behind the incident, and 🐟gave his view on Saturday afternoon. “[Alex] Rins ran me off at the last corner like a complete f*****g idiot for no reason. He just drove up the inside of me an🌳d ran me off the edge of the track starting the lap.

“Then I ran on at turn one and saw Marc highside. I knew exactly w🌟hat he’d done. He was dicking around so much and the left side [of the rear] gets cold. It’s quite ꧟hard, the left side here and it got too cold and high-sided him.

“Watching the replay it did not look pleasant because he wasn’t abl🐟e to get any hands up. It was straight on the face so I hope he’s alright.

“It’s hard to say exactly wꦰhat he was trying to do. No one knows. He’ll know. He had a game plan obviously and he wa𒊎s playing the cat and mouse. He’s generally the master tactician but today it came back to bite him on the arse.

“I mean, he’s eleventh. Hey, he’s a world champ so he can kind of🔜 𝔍do whatever he wants.”

Looking towards Sunday, Miller believes he has “a good chance” to repli🧔cate his Phillip Island feats at the Malaysian Grand Prix, a bout that he fee൩ls will be a “cat and mouse” scrap at the front.

The Australian qualified fo🦩urth in Q2 and was the first non-Yamaha rider after another strong weekend. What’s more, Miller sounded confident when talking about his chances for Sunday’s 20-lap𓂃 affair.

“I think we’ve got a good chance,” he began. “The Yamahas are always strong through free practice. I’d like to see how it goes when it comes to race time. I think we’ve done our homework. I think we’ve got a really good chance a𓃲gainst those guys.

“Let’s see how we manage the rear tyre and how the Yamahas do. Viñales this morning seemed to have really great pace on the medium rear. A lot of 1m 59s. But like I said, we have to wait and see what happens when the ra☂ce comes round.

“Race tyre looks like it’s going to be softs… Soft front, soft rear. I was sort of anti-the [soft] front. But it’s come round as the track’s progressed. The front’s come back into its own. It’s not really doi🥀ng too much coll🅰apsing, it’s got a bit more turning.

“You just have to watch it on the edge with the understeer. That’s maybe the only thing that could come undone there. Then the rear, they’re both quite similarඣ to each other. The hard is completely like a back up. Because of the new bits of surface they brought it.

“I don’t think anyone will be looking at that. It’ll be between the soft and the medium. I’m quite good on the soft. I’ve done a lot of laps. I’m able to keep the pace, which for me is good. Maverick’s blistering pace with the 1m 59s, it looks like he’s going to ride aw♏ay from us again. But we’ll have to see how the race unfolds.

“I think all the Yamahas seem to be going pretty strong. It’s going to be one of those cat-and-mouse kind of races like it always is here for the first 10-15 laps. Keep calm and try not to destroy the tyre too much. I felt I♓ rode qui❀te smart race in Australia. It will be quite a bit more of that I think come Sunday here.

“[The Yamaha] seems to be working quite well. There is a lot of time on the angle, a lot of turnin𝓡g. For example sector three is my worst sector by far and that’s where the Yamaha 🃏can excel.

“We’ve got big ho🌱rsepower. The Honda’s got big horsepower. The Yamaha can get out of the turns quite quickly, especially that long right 🧸hander before the back straight.”