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

Jack Miller has opened up on the brutality of motorcycle racing, and the bravery and sacrifice required to reach the very top.
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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 st൩artling revelation of the mentality needed to conquer fear.

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“In Australia, where I grew up, before every race, you do a rider’s bri💮efing,” Miller told .

“And they tell you: ‘You may be killed𓃲 or injured; your machine may be damaged or desღtroyed’. 

“That’s something tha🍃t burns itself in the back of your brain - and I’ve broken well over 30 bones, and lost some really great fr💙iends.

“But d🍸id I ever think about quitting the sport? Does it even pop into my mind? Never. 

“That can happen with th🍃e 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: “Fearꦓ 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 a🤡nd approaching the barrie🎃r 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 cham🐟pion 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 ꦺMotoGP riders.

“Right here, after the backstraight,” he said, “we arrive there at 340 kilometers [211 mph] and we take the corner at 60 [37 mph] - that’s 280 kil🏅ometers [174 mph🌊] difference in only 250 metres.”

Fabio Quartararo, MotoGP, Dutch MotoGP, 24 June
Fabio Quartararo, MotoGP, Dutch MotoGP, 24 June

Quartararo has paid a phy🌼sical toll over the years.

“I brokꦜe my foot, my back, my wrists, my fingers. . . ma🧜ny things!

“Actually, my left wrist is really bad - I broke it in more t༺han 20 parts.

“[It’s in the] past - 𒊎now we need to focus on the present.”

The 2023 MotoGP season, which has featured a new format intrཧ🐻oducing sprint races at every round on Saturdays, has been littered with injuries.

Marc Marquez has notably failed to complete a grand prix yet, ♊i꧙n part to hand issues.

Pol Espargaro has missed the entire season after a crash on the first Frid𝓡ay left him with a broken jaw, a serious back injury, and a lung problem.

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