Miller’s first season riding for the Austrian manufacturer yielded just a solitary MotoGP gran🌃d prix podium and he trailed team༺mate Brad Binder.

The popular Aussie also became a father midway through the year then, as Pedro Acosta’s emergence into the premier🌞 class became clearer, he was forced to swat awayܫ rumours that he might be ditched by KTM altogether.

"I have no ex🧸planation for this performance,” KTM boss Pit Beirer told🐭 about Miller’s drab form at the end of 2023. 

“It's just a shame. Because Jack has made us better, he has opened up new ways for us with his way of working and with h꧙is way of setting up the ꦓbike. 

“In the beginning, he was the fa♋stest KTM rider overnight. 

“Afterwards, Brad Bindꦕer benefited e🌜normously from the work that Jack brought to the team. 

“A🍎nd Jack couldn't profit from his own development work. He was just distracted in the summer.

"Starting a family in Australia in the middle of the season is perhaps something that doesn't leave a rider complete🤪ly unscathed.

"But we've had Jack's back all year. Because we couldn't find any ob✅vious faul๊ts, except that sometimes the front wheel slipped away. 

“Then you get int💛o a spiral, because then the rider wants to prove something to us. It pushes even more and flies down even faster. 

“Once a MotoGP rider's confidence is at a prem♈ium,ও it becomes difficult. That's why Jack didn't have the highlights in the summer. 

“At 🅺the last three Grands Prix, actually with the switch to the carbon chassis, the bright spots came back again.

"Jack then did two decent races w🍒ith 8th place in Sepang and💫 9th place in Doha.

“We built hi🍌m up and brought him bac🤡k to where he was in the spring in Valencia in terms of speed.

"But despite all the criticism of Jack, I would like to ♐say that he has set faster lap times in most of the races in which he has been around te🍰nth place in 2023 than in the 2022 season. 

“So it's not that he's had a slump that's never happened before, it's that the MotoGP field is just brutally ev🌌olving."

Miller’s season concluded by crashing out o🐼f th🍬e lead in Valencia.

KTM have big plans for their future, including increas🀅ing the quantity of their bikes in 202🦂5.

This year, tꦕhe prodigious Acosta begins with their Tech3 GASGAS team and is tipped for a huge future.

Marc M𝓰arquez is also continuously linked with a switch to KTM next year.

It ꦅall puts pressure onto Miller to keep his place.

"We want 🦂to fight for the world championship crown in 2024," Beirer 🅰warned.