MotoGP Le Mans: ‘Pecco impressive, pace is red hot’ - Miller

Le Mans’ Parc Fermé was ablaze in red on Saturday afternoon as Jack Miller completed a Ducati Lenovo one-two in MotoGP qualifying.

Miller was just 0.069s behind Pecco Bagnaia in the hunt for pole position with the pair running under the repeatedly broken lap record at the French track.

“It felt unreal this morning to do those laps,” the Australian admitted from the post-qualifying press conference having already beaten the circuit best during FP3. “The grip was there, the way you can use the tyre was impressive, especially here in Le Mans with so many corners where you’re sort of accelerating on angle. The biggest issue is slip and that was nearly non existent, you almost had too much grip.

“This afternoon the lap time definitely was harder to find. I knew, like I did a ‘30.8 this morning, I knew I had that sort of pace in me. I knew what that lap took but I kind of knew if I had a bit of a gauge, let’s say, somebody in front, a tow, it would help and Pecco was a perfect target in the box next to me! You can see when he’s leaving, so it worked out well.

“It was impressive,” he said of his colleague’s performance. We’re all pushing, I mean I did a ‘30.5 but to watch his pole lap in the best seat in the house, was impressive.

“Turn six, he went the whole way through turn six with black line coming off the front tyre, missed the line a little bit and was able to bring it back in. It’s pretty impressive to watch it when it’s like that and at that exact same time, you know, my bike’s doing the exact same sort of thing. So it’s kind of impressive.

“The pace all weekend has been red hot. Everybody’s going so well. To break the lap record that stood for quite some time now, in the amount we have, is impressive and also the race