Jack Miller points out the bike characteristics required to fight Ducati

Jack Miller has offered an insight into the attributes needed in a bike to challenge Ducati’s dominance.
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The Italian manufacturer will again have eight riders on this year’s MotoGP gr𒊎id, and their De🀅smosedici was clearly the best machine of last year.

I♊t means that, even despite KTM’s impressive advancement, they hav🐟e had to adjust.

Miller was asked how influential his feedback was in the KTM’s evolution last year into a longer and higher bike, in the Dജucati style.

“You only have to take a photo of my bike from [in 2022] and compare it💙 to my bike [in 2023] to understand how big an impact it has had,” he told . 

“If you lay the two on top of each other, they are ♉almost identi꧅cal in geometry. 

“Sure, the components are still made in the KTM style, but if we're talking about a racing machine in 2023, you have𝐆 to go in that direction.

“Especially with the aﷺerodynamics, the brakes, the wings and everything.

“You need power, you need to be able to use that power, and you need to be able to brake as hard൲ as possiꩲble. 

“These are the three components. 

“Turning is another matter, our steering behaviour is not bad. We've never had a🀅 problem with it.”

Asked if he likes responsive bikes, Miller said: ဣ“I like them, I've ridden a Honda in t🐼he past, I don't mind. 

“The problem is: if you want to have a competitive motorcycle today,𒁃 against eight Ducatis💜, then you need something to be able to fight against them.”

Miller’s first year since leaving ✅the factory Ducati team for KTM concluded 11th in the MotoGP standings.

An early podium in Sไpain was a promising start but he was 🧜eventually outperformed by teammate Brad Binder.

Miller’s season ended by crashing out of 𝐆the lead in the last grand prix in Valenꦗcia.

He promises an improved version of himself this year: “I think so. Okay, the results may not refl🏅ect it, but every year I feel that I'm getting better and better. 

“I'm getting stronger and stronger. 

“A different approach, a different mentality, a different strategy - I feel it every sin🎀gle year, physically and mentally.

“I am 28 years old. In a world where we are always so focused on new things, most people experience their best years in 💃their mid-20s or early 30s. 🐎;

“I feel like my best years are yet to come. 

“And that comes𝓀 with maturi🐻ty, the work, the strategy as a whole. 

“I have learned from my mistakes. T💎hese areꦜ things that you can take with you and use to become a better person.”

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