Miller reshapes the record books
By winning the Dutch TT, Aussie Jack Miller enters the record books for many different reasons…Jack Miller did a lot more at Assen than just becoming the first Indepencdt Team Rider since 2006 to win a premier class race. Let's take a look:
• He is the fifth youngest rider to win in the premier-class in the MotoGP era, after: Marc Marquez, Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner.
• He is the 12th Australian rider to win in the premier-class, joining Mick Doohan, Casey Stoner, Wayne Gardner, Daryl Beattie, Jack Findlay, Garry McCoy, Jack Ahearn, Troy Bayliss, Ken Kavanagh, Kevin Magee and Chris Vermeulen.
• It is the first MotoGP win by an Australian rider since Stoner won at Phillip Island in 2012.
• He is the first rider to take a maiden MotoGP win since Marquez at Austin in 2013. This sequence of 59 races without a first-time winner is the longest in premier-class history.
• He is the first rider to win a MotoGP race having previously won in the Moto3 class.
• He is just the sixth rider to win a MotoGP race without having competed in the intermediate-class of grand prix racing for at least one year, joining Nicky Hayden, Ben Spies, Makoto Tamada, Troy Bayliss and Chris Vermeulen (of these riders both Bayliss and Tamada did compete in the 250cc GP class, but only as wildcard riders).
• His victory at the Dutch TT makes him the 10th youngest winner of all time in the premier class. As shown in the following table he misses out on becoming the youngest Australian winner in the premier class by just 15 days:
Rider Age at first MotoGP/500cc win Race
1. Marc Marquez 20 years 63 days Americas/2013/Austin
2. Freddie Spencer 20 years 196 days Belgium/1982/Spa
3. Norick Abe 20 years 227 days Japan/1996/Suzuka
4. Dani Pedrosa 20 years 227 days China/2006/Shanghai
5. Randy Mamola 20 years 239 days Belgium/1980/Zolder
6. Jorge Lorenzo 20 years 345 days Portugal/2008/Estoril
7. Mike Hailwood 21 years 75 days Britain/1961/IOM TT
8. Valentino Rossi 21 years 144 days Britain/2000/Donington
9. Casey Stoner 21 years 145 days Qatar/2007/Losail
10. Jack Miller 21 years 160 days Dutch TT/2016/Assen
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