All they can do is wait and see, keep fit and hope that things will return to normal soon. Right now, the point is to bite the bullet and make a small contribution by following the measures that will help contain the spread of the coronavirus. Jack Miller is making it out of Australia where he returned when he realized MotoGP wasn’t going to start anytime soon. The Pramac team driver confessed that it is not an easy situation for an athlete.
“I don’t want to lie. Your motivation will be tested if you don’t have a specific time or date. You spend the winter getting in shape again, getting ready, you testing, then everything stops. You feel like you’re in purgatory. My whole life is determined by deadlines. Go to a race this week, travel next week, test another week … well, you really can’t know, and there’s no way you can know. It could be Barcelona, it could be Assen… who knows? ”Explained Jack from his blog.
Now all you have to do is keep fit.
“My exercise program hasn’t changed,” he explained. “I still ride my bike and still run. I make sure to get up early in the morning and sit outside. It’s easy here because it’s hot too. That definitely helps. It would be easy to lose motivation, exercise a little less, put on a few pounds where you don’t want to … this is definitely something I’m trying to avoid because I’ve had difficulty losing weight in the past. I worked very hard on this aspect so that afterwards I didn’t have to try so hard to get as close to my best form as possible. I will do motocross. I’ll do what I can to keep racing, because that’s what you try desperately, so to speak, when you can’t do your actual job. “
As mentioned earlier, Miller returned to Australia to live with his family.
“After the Qatar test in February, I returned to Andorra and prepared for the first race. All the usual things: watch my diet, make sure to be ready and so on,” he said. “The day before I returned to Qatar, I cleaned the house, washed the laundry … then I got the message that we wouldn’t drive. That was just the beginning. When the Qatar GP was canceled, I knew that Thailand would also be canceled and they would never let us enter America … once I found out and since it was cold and snowing in Andorra I decided it was time to go home. I had returned to my mother and father’s house before the Moto2 and Moto3 races in Qatar, and it was strange to see her at home, not hurt or any other reason i was there. The past few weeks have actually been the longest time I’ve spent in Australia in the past 10 years, and the benefit of all of this is that it is really nice to be at home. I would love to be here for better reasons and it sucks not to drive, but there is a positive side. I was pretty relaxed and tinkered with a couple of bikes in the shed to keep myself busy. “
Miller is in contact with the Pramac team based in Italy.
“I tried not to bother you with too many questions,” he emphasized. “I spoke to Paolo Campinoti and my team manager to make sure they are all okay. Italy was one of the hardest hit countries so it’s difficult not to think about the team. I am very sorry for you. For once, Australia’s isolation has helped us so far, and I hope it doesn’t get any worse, as has happened in many other places. “
The Australian would also like to send a message to all World Cup fans.
“There are so many people who love MotoGP and who miss it,” said Jack. “For anyone who loves sports, and I count myself in that category, it’s difficult when everything you like so much has stopped. You don’t realize how much you rely on sport as an escape route, how passionate you are for a sport, how natural you take it for granted until it is gone. Trust me i know. It sucks, but we will be back. “