Violent vibration threw Jack Miller’s legs off the pegs, "bike slid out from under me"
Jack Miller c♕rashes out in Qatar after violent rear v🧜ibration ruins hopes of a fightback: “The bike was working… Until it wasn’t”
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Miller’s hopes of a late turnaround in Qatar were dashed after a “violent” rear-end vibration led to him crashing out of Sunday’s MotoGP under the floodlights in Lusail.
The Australian had struggled thr🧸oughout the weekend, c🌟rashing twice while battling food poisoning on Friday, then qualifying his Pramac Yamaha in 16th.
Miller briefly gained a position in the early laps on Sunda𝔍y before being re-passed by former KTM team-๊mate Brad Binder.
The #43's race then seemed to stabilise and he was regainꦓing his rhythm - until it all unravelled on lap 9 of 22.
“That wa🤡s the best I‘d felt all weekend - the bike was working well, until it suddenly wasn‘t," he said. “My rhythm was strong, and I was feeling pretty comfortable catching back up to the group ahead."
Miller previou𓄧sly spoke of his relief at leaving the extreme chatter that dogged his final season at𝔉 KTM behind.
But chatter came back to haunt him on Sunday.
Jack Miller: "The bike suddenly started vibrating violently"
“I switched the map, and then just before the crash, coming into Turn 15 on what could have been my best lap, the bike🌼 suddenly started vibrating violently at theᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ rear, so much so that my legs came off the pegs.
"💞I had to slow down, and even then my lap time was a 1‘53.9.”
Disaster then struck a few corners later.
“Martin passed me, and I followed him into Turn 1, but at Turn 2, ꧙anoth🍷er left-hander, as soon as I leaned in, I lost the front," he said.
“I managed to keep the bike up with my elbow, but when I pushed in deꦚeper, it started vibrating again. I was offline and onto the dirty part of the track, and the bike just slid out frꦐom under me.
“We saw very clearly in the data that something ♊changed𝐆 from one lap to the next. Why, we don‘t know.
“The tyre looked fine, everything seemed okay, so we need to understaꦍnd more about what happened.
“Honestly, it ended the way the whole weekend had been go𓄧ing. I‘m happy to be heading to Jerez: I think this bike will work well there.”
A similar fate met team-mate Augusto Fernandez, who crashed four laps later at Turn 4, bringing💯 a double DNF for the satellite Yam🙈aha squad.
“It has been a tough weekend,” admitted team direc⛎tor Gino Borsoi.
“Our engineers will now analyse th𝔉e data to fully understand what exactly happened... We now have a one-week break before Jerez, and we have some homework to do.”
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