Catalunya MotoGP: Miller: Lorenzo confident with 'collapsing' front

After Jorge Lorenzo's second Ducati Moto🐻GP victory in as many races, at Catalunya on Sunday, his fellow Desmosediಌci riders are sure to be pouring through the data to try and find out where the Spaniard is gaining.

The braking area on the slippery Barcelona circuit was 16𝓀8澳洲5最新开奖结果:soon identified by team-mate Andrea Dovizioso, straight after the race.

Miller: Lorenzo confident with 'collapsing' front

After Jorge Lorenzo's second Ducati MotoGP victorౠy in as many races, at Catalunya on Sunday, his fellow Desmosedici riders are sure to be pouring through the data to try and find out where the Spaniard is gaining.

The braking area on the slippery Barcelona circuit was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:soon identified by team-mate Andrea💦 Dovizioso, straight after the race.

But while Dovi suspected Lorenzo was benefitting from less rear-wheel slides in the bra🤡king zone, Pramac's Jack Miller believes it was the way Lorenzo kept confidence in the 'collapsing' soft front tyre that held the key.

"[Lorenzo] wasn't too much wheels-in-line. 🔯He was sliding into turn one a little bit more than me yesterday," Miller explained at Monday's official post-race test, which Lorenzo and Dovizioso did not attend.

"It was just the way ꦇ[Lorenzo] was adapting to the [soft front tyre], because you couldn’t really use the medium and the hard tyre too well.

"But♛ he was using the [soft] and letting it collapse the whole way and basically had confidence with it collapsing.

"Whereas the rest of us - or myself in particular - were not squishing the tyre all the way. Because I'm used to w♔hen you squish it🍸, normally you're going to end in the air.

ꦇ"So we've been working on that tওoday and I think it's helped us with the outright race pace."

Asked to confirm✨ when the 'collapsing' feeling from the soft front tyre occurs, the Australian replied:

"Straight braking. It just goes almost flat and you have a feeling like🍌 the tyre is deforming under you. You feel the handleཧbars moving a little bit. But it's just something you have to ride through. It's strange!"

Miller, who retired with technical problems in the race, had set th෴e eighth fastest lap time when the team packed up just after lunch.

"We tried to work🏅 on myself and a few different things for the bike. But we're on last year's bike, so there'ꩵs not much development.

"Here w♑as a good place to test because we struggled, but we got quicker and quicker as the weekend went on. Missing the [private] test before the grand prix probably didn’t help us."

The next event will be the Dutch TT a🍸t Assen, where Miller took his MotoGP win in 2016.

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