Jack Miller: “Either I go on a lettuce diet, or we find horsepower!”

KTM’s Binder finished on the podium and was part of the sensational three-way fight with Jorge Mar﷽tin and Francesco Bagnaia for the v♌ictory.
But Miller languished in 1🐬6th after a race he’d rather forget.
“A long💜 old race,” Miller said. “I gave it, pretty much, everything I could. I൲’ve been struggling all weekend at Turn 1 and 3. The middle section was alright.
“Just real slow in the first sector. The bike didn’t feel ౠterrible but, every time we put this casing on, I suffer.
💯“I can’t f💙ind a way to get it to drive. It wasn’t like that, for me, in the past. It’s a head-scratching moment.
“I’m missin♓g a bi✅t of top speed. I couldn’t get close to a Yamaha.
“Either I go on a lettuce diet this week, or we find a bit of horsepower! A bit🎐 of both would be﷽ good!
“I didn’t make any mistakes. I was able to hang with those boys for a bit but lost speed🍨 when the tyre dropped off.
“Disappointing weekend, not t🃏he result we wanted. Clearly the bike is working well with Brad’s result. We need to♔ work harder.”

Asked what his teammate Bin൲der did so well, Miller replied: “Sector 1. He’s been fast there all weekend, two tenths quicker than anybody else. And even in the second sector.
“I tried f***** every which way. But to change my line, try a different style, pick the bike up which wasn’t w🦩orking great in terms of getting it onto the thinner rubber.
“𓂃I tried the lean angle, I tried short shifting. I tried f***** everything I could. We’ve got a little bit of work to do🌸.
“I’m disappointed. The boys are working hard so to not bring home a point is 🅺disappointing.
“It’♉s MotoGP these days. Fourteen points off and we’re out of the poi꧋nts.
“Pace was decent. I used the same set of tyres as I did in the spr🌠int but couldn’t get close in terms of lap time.”
Asked if he frustrated by his wheels spinning, Miller said: “Yeah, but not a massive amount. 🐎It’s n꧑ot going forwards.
“I’m losing two-to-three bike lengths every time we come off the corner. You are carryi👍ng that the whole straight.ꦰ
“If you try to set up a pass, set up a move? You꧋’re al🎀ready risking life and limb trying to pass, these days.
“If you try to make up three or four bik𒈔e lengths? It gets pretty hairy, pretty 🥂difficult to make a pass.”

James was a sports journali﷽st at Sky Sports for a decade covering✤ everything from American sports, to football, to F1.