Jack Miller didn’t have an easy race at the MotoGP German GP, but he ended up making his return to the podiums with third place. To do so, he had to overcome a game that was not the best possible and a penalty from Long Lap… in which he really got a scare.
In a press conference, the Ducati australian stated after the race: ‘It was a long distance race; 30 laps here is always very tiring and when you have 55ºC of track temperature, the heat of these bikes going up in the field… it was very hot. But with the Long Lap penalty he knew he had to get off to a good start. I didn’t, so the first objective is gone. But I managed to overtake Fabio [Di Giannantonio] before the Long Lap. I managed to have a lap and a half on my own to stretch as much as I could before having to do the Long Lap. I left it to the last moment’.
About the Long Lap, Miller said that it was a particularly difficult moment in which he almost lost control of the bike: ‘I did the Long Lap, it was probably one of the most difficult moments of the race: there were some stones on the track in the Long Lap area. Lap and almost lost the front. But I didn’t waste too much time. I let [Maverick] Vinales, Fabio [DiGiannantonio] and I think [Jorge] Martin overtake them’.