MotoGP Phillip Island: Miller ready to ‘dance, home win the dream’

Jack Miller returns ‘home’ for the first time in two years and on the factory Ducati as MotoGP arrives at Phillip Island.

Recently married, in the five-rider fight for the 2022 title and leading a parade of 250 Australian bike fans across the San Remo bridge and round the circuit in the build up to his home Grand Prix, Miller was well and truly loving life as round 18 prepared.

“It took me until about Tuesday to recover,” he joked of his recent nuptials in Townsville, Queensland. “But we made it down here so that’s a positive! An amazing point for me, us, in our life and also to be able to break it up into these races. Back on this side of the world finally, has been nice to get a lot of the team there and a lot of my friends and family, friends out of the paddock to come across, it was awesome.”

The wedding also featured fellow Ducati rider Johann Zarco on guitar mid-speeches.

“Yeah, fantastic, we managed to slot him in,” Miller confirmed with a smile. “I managed to save a little bit on the old wedding singer so that was decent too. He done a good job actually, I think he might have a plan sorted for after racing!”

Back to the day job and the 27-year-old was over the moon to be back on home soil after the championship’s two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.

“Yeah, I’m buzzing,” he confirmed. “It’s awesome to be back on this side of the world. As I’ve been saying in the lead up to this, throughout Japan and Thailand, it feels so good to be riding bikes back on this side of the world and eventually coming home.

“It felt mega, just to ride across that bridge yesterday with all those Aussie fans. Such a massive country and those guys ride from far and wide to make it here. A very hungry motorsport country, Australia, and