MotoGP Le Mans: Miller ‘stoked, Enea rode a perfect race’

Jack Miller enjoyed his best result of the season so far at Le Mans after securing second place in the FrenchGP on Sunday.

While not quite the fairytale all-Ducati podium it looked to be gearing up for, after the Lenovo rider’s teammate Pecco Bagnaia crashed out having led for 17 laps, Miller trailed Gresini Racing’s Enea Bastianini home for an impressive one-two.

“We’re putting in a solid year,” Miller confirmed after the podium, and shoey, celebrations. “It’s just, okay, the crash in Portimao wasn’t ideal, the bike shitting itself in Qatar wasn’t ideal but that’s racing. We have issues like that, but we’re only a third of the way through the year.

“We’re putting together a solid year I think, especially with how much up and down this year is going to be. We just got to keep working away at it.

“Today, I took a gamble with that P front, with that soft front tyre, but it was just my gut feeling, my gut instinct. Every time I put the medium in this weekend, I crashed and was about the same time, four laps in. Just couldn’t get the thing to work and then it would disappear on me. It felt mega leaving the box and first two laps, and then I’d get no feeling or no warning of I was even close to crashing. So with the P, with the soft front tyre I was getting a lot of good feedback off it. Okay, it’s not as stable, you get a lot more understeer, a lot more locking whatever, but I can read where I was on the tyre and I can understand okay, if I can push or not. And that’s half the thing. So yeah, we took a gamble with that but I think it paid off today.

“Pecco wanted to push the pace early on,” he continued of his teammate’s initial dominance. “I was just gonna stick to my pace the whole way through the race and that’s what I