Miller: “No help for idiots”

Jack Miller qualified on the third row of the grid for Sunday’s Australian Tissot Moto3 Grand Prix – then laid into the ‘idiots’ who he claimed cost him a better starting position as he tries to close the Championship gap on Alex Marquez.

“It was a real big shame,”’ said an angry Miller, who starts the race 25 points adrift of Marquez with just three races remaining.

“The second-last lap was an extremely fast lap, but our lap time depends on the exit from the last corner because the finish line is at the end of the straight, and someone destroyed my lap. In the last corner I got no drive like I should, and ended up eighth.”
What surprised many onlookers was that Miller then aborted a final chance to go faster, and the Red Bull KTM Ajo rider admitted there was a bit of revenge in that decision.

He had a locomotive line-up of riders behind him heading towards the Southern Loop and decided they could do the work for themselves.

“I don’t see the point of completing a lap to help out the idiots that destroyed my lap,” he insisted. “It was a joke. You see the traffic coming up on the last corner, it was stupid. It’s unsafe, it’s just a joke.

“The stupidity is getting worse race by race, they need to try to do something before somebody really does get hurt.”

On the other hand, Miller was keen to make the best of things.

“The third row of the grid is not the worst starting position and most of the races have been won from back there,” he added, “so we just have to put our head down.

“We have great race pace and the tyres are lasting well, so I have a good feeling for tomorrow. Our lap-by-lap is quick and I’m also doing the laps alone, without a slipstream like Alex (Marquez) and Alex (Rins) had, so we’re not worried at all.”