MotoGP Phillip Island: ‘That’s the card we were dealt today but it’s not over!’ - Miller

Jack Miller’s hopes of a home MotoGP victory came to an abrupt end on Sunday at the corner named after the Australian just 24 hours before.

A misjudged move by LCR’s Alex Marquez just nine laps in resulted in the Ducati being shunted from behind and out of the race before he even knew what hit him. Something he was all too aware off after the race.

“I feel like I’ve been run over by a motorcycle that’s for certain!” Miller said on Sunday afternoon. “I got jammed between his front tyre and the tank so the family jewel area is not feeling too great, back’s a bit stiff and the rest, but I’ll be right in a couple of days. We don’t really have too much turn around, but I’ll be right come Malaysia.

“It’s unfortunate what happened, I couldn’t really do nothing in that situation,” he continued. “Race was going good, felt good, the bike is working really well. We made some changes overnight and I was really happy with how the bike was behaving, especially in the wind. Was able to come through relatively quick, felt good. Understood Pecco [Bagnaia] kinda didn’t want me in front of him so I was like ‘Alright, I’ll take stock, fourth place, we can settle down’. I just swapped the map, thought ‘we’ll settle down here and let the laps tick over and hopefully start to wind it on towards the end of the race’. But pretty much as soon as I swapped the map, entry of turn four, mid corner and yeah, just got slammed. There’s not much I could do about it.

“He said he had a big lock,” Miller explained on Marquez’ apology. “I understand, he was trying to pass Marini but yeah, he just might of lost sight of where the corner was or whatever.

“It is what it is, you can’t really do too much about these things, this is racing sometimes. That’s the