Jack Miller: “They tell you ‘you may be killed’ - I lost friends, broke bones”

🎃The KTM MotoGP rider has been riding bikes since he was two, and racing since he was a seven-year-old.
He has offered a 👍startling revelation of the mentality needed to conquer fear.
“In Australia, where I g🥂rew up, before every race, you do a rider’s briefing,” ꩲMiller told .
ღ“And they tell you: 🐟‘You may be killed or injured; your machine may be damaged or destroyed’.
“That’s something that burns itself🌠 in the back of your brain - and I’ve brꦺoken well over 30 bones, and lost some really great friends.
“But did I ever think about qu♋itting the sport? Does it even pop i﷽nto my mind? Never.
“That can happ🐭en with the♎ things you love: You’re scared about it, but you don’t really think about it.”
Miller’s ex-Ducati teammate and his ꧅friend Francesco Bagnaia added: “Fear is part of our sport.
“It’s part of our job: When you crash at high speed, you feel fear - you’re arriving to the gravel very fast and approaching the barrier very fast - but before that, you don’t think about🐼 it.”
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Quartararo, the 2021 MotoGP champion and Yamaha rider, went further: “You need to ﷽put your balls on the bike🦂 and give your best.”
Quartararo described Turn 1 at the Circuit of the Americas in Texas to underline the speed and bravery of M💦otoGP🔯 riders.
“Right here, after the backstraight,”𓄧 he saiℱd, “we arrive there at 340 kilometers [211 mph] and we take the corner at 60 [37 mph] - that’s 280 kilometers [174 mph] difference in only 250 metres.”

Quartararo has paid a physical toll ove🌃r the years.
“I broke my foot, my back, my wrists, my fingers. . . many🌺 things!
“Actually, my left wri🐽st 🤡is really bad - I broke it in more than 20 parts.
“[It’s in the] past - now w🌃e need to focus on the present.”
The 2023 MotoGP season, which has featured a new format introducing🦄 sprint races at every round on Saturdays, has been littered with injuries.
Marc Marquez has notably failed to complete a gran⛄d prix yet, in part to hand issues.
Pol 🎃Espargaro has missed the entire season after a crash on the first Friday left him with a broken jaw, a🃏 serious back injury, and a lung problem.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a d♊ecade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.