After making a strong start to the first I🐟ndonesian MotoGP race since 1997, Fabio Quartararo slipped as far back as sixth during the opening 💞few laps. 

However, the French rider then started to find performance that not only allowed him to challenge those ahead of him, but also become the fastest rider on-track during the cloꦚsing stages. 

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Before making his recovery back to second place꧂, Quartararo was involved in an early race scrap with Miller which saw the Ducati man initially get the better of the current world champion.

But after getting through on the Yamaha rider, Miller felt a significant touch to his right side, claiming Quartararo aimed for 🌌his front tyre. 

Miller said: “Well it wasn’t a fight. I just passed him and he rode his motorcy♓cle into the side of my leg. Quite clearly like he did to Johann [Zarco]. 

“I don🌺’t think it’s necessary when someone passes you to immediately accelerate towards their front tyre. I will quite happily have a word with him about this because it’s not on. 

“As we saw with Johann, you pass ‘okay, that’s fine’, the Yamaha turns well ‘okay’, but that doesn’t mean y🔯ou open the gas and aim for the front tyre. 

“I don’t💫 think that’s fair. He rode into the side of my leg and I clearly had better pace at that point in time. 

“I came from ninth on the grid and was faster than him. It was ju🐷st an unnecessary risk at that early stage of the race to be running in my le💎g.”

While Miller was angered by the actions of Quartararo, the 22 year-old had a very different taღke on what happened.  

Quartararo hit back saying:🅷 "I don’t care! I don’t care because he’s the one in the past that has some aggressive moves.&nbไsp;

"I think my move was also not aggressive, just I didn’t expect to touch. My touch was not something big, it was a really small touch and I don’t kno🎃w if he watched on TV, but he better watch because I did nothing wrong. 

"He was talking to me on the bike but I couldn’t hear anything. He was not haꦰppy. I didn’t make any strange moves. 

"He overtook me in turn onꦅe and I 𒆙saw he was going wide and I just crossed the line. 

"I would also like to🙈 have the comments from other riders on if it was a non respect move or not. From my point of view, if I make a bad move I say sorry, but that one I have noth🅘ing to say."

Despite the incident, Quartararo produced argua𒉰bly his best ever wet race in MotoGP, one that moves him up to third in the championship behind Enea Bastianini and Bra💟d Binder. 

"This result is supꦯer great. When you expect a dry race and make basically all the weekend with an amazing pace, you feel so great. 

"Also the 20 laps for us waꦚs a bit better because when we have tyre degradation we⛄ miss a bit of acceleration. 

"Seven laps less was better for us and we could push from the beginning until the end. I felܫt my pace in the dry was really strong. 

"But I found something in the wet. I 𓃲always asked to have more rear grip and here it was amazing. 

"It took me time to realise that I co🍸uld go that fast on the wet. I saw that I was in P5 and felt I could do a bit better than that result. Super happy to be in this position."