Jack Miller finished ninth in the Malaysian MotoGP Sprint, but was held back by a v♏ibration issue.

Miller qualified well in seventh, but didn’t make the most of the start as his front start device didn’t disengage when he💫 braked for the firs🌱t corner.

“Qualifying in🅰side that top-10 makes life a lot easier,” Miller said, “but I kind of ballsed it up a bit to be honest.

“I saw [Enea] Bastianini going deep at turn one, and I braked early expecting tไhe whole group to maybe blow out🐠 that way, and I’d maybe hold a tighter line at turn one.

“But🐷 in doing that I didn’t unlock my front device and had to have another stab at it into turn two, and go back to first [gear] and I just got swarmed coming out of turn two.

“So, not ideal, but I was able to fight back a little bit,ඣ I tried my best.”

Miller ran into problems at turn five, where on Friday he’d encountered a vibration du🌃ring Practice, one he thought had been rectified on Saturday.

“Turn five was a real big issue for me,” Miller said. “We had an issue yesterday there: kind of halfway through one of the time attacks, I’d just done my best lap and I kind of hit a bump and from that moment o🌺n the bike started vibrating.

“Once we swapped✃ bikes it was better, back to how it was prior to hitting the bump, and even this morning we changed a few parts, and the seat, and it was bette🍨r again, but it seemed to happen again in the race.

“From 𒁃the get go the vibration was really bad in turn five, so I couldn’t crank it in, I had to really roll off the gas and almost grab a bit of front brake there to transfer the load off the rear, and then mid-corner really opening the gas — rather than carrying corner speed, trying to accelerate through the corner.

“Apart from that, the ✃bike was working really well: I could turn on a dimepiece, and it was good for fighting, so can’t complain too much. If we can try to get the same start as today, but man up a bit in turn one and get the elbows out a little bit more.”

Miller was the only KTM rider to qualify for Q2 straight from Practi☂ce, and for the second weekend in a row was battling with Pedro Acosta, who will replace him at the 🌟factory KTM team next season.

“I feel like we’ve ma𓃲de a step with the bike,” Miller♏ said.

“We made some radical changes for the wet on Sunday [in Thailand], but obviously we were doing that🌳 anyway, regardless of the conditions on Sunday in Thailand.

“But it’s been a gradual building on things, and just having these consecutive races to get some time under our seat and try and understand what’s going on with this bike; and have a little bit of help from the guys at home to try and sort out these vib﷽ration issues has been good.

“The bike does some things really well, but when you have something hindering you like that vibration it’s not been easy throughout the year, an🍎d we’re finally making headway on it now.”