MotoGP: Bagnaia jumps Martin in MotoGP standings after race win in Austria
Against all expectations – including, at times, his own – it appears Jack Miller will keep his place on the MotoGP grid next season, withMiller’s retention in the series for next season isn’t the first time a rider’s nationality has tipped the scales in a decision-making process, and won’t be the last. It’s not even the first time for Miller, who – without his passport and some external assistance – might not have made it to MotoGP in the first place.
Miller’s future looked murky way back in 2012 before series promoter Dorna got involved. Come the Australian Grand Prix that October, the penultimate round of the 2012 season, it looked to be over for Miller before help came from a left-field source. On the same day compatriot Casey Stoner won his sixth straight MotoGP race at Phillip Island before his retirement at the end of that season, Miller had a nightmare Moto3 outing, penalised for jumping the start and finishing 21st.
Australia had riders on the full-time MotoGP grid after the departing Stoner was replaced at Repsol Honda by a young Spaniard named Marc Marquez for 2013, but Bryan Staring and Broc Parkes were journeymen who were making up the numbers. Miller was seen as a young, viable, ascendant prospect for the future.
KTM’s Miller/Binder partnership is one of just two on the 2024 grid without an Italian or Spanish rider Compared to four-wheel global cousin Formula One – whose 20 drivers represent 15 different nationalities and only one country hosts more than two races – MotoGP is considerably less diverse. “We’re in contact and trying to sort something out … I feel like my time is not done yet and I feel like I have a lot more to give,” he said.
A potential line-up of Oliveira – replaced at Trackhouse by Ogura – and Miller at Pramac Yamaha for 2025 offers an elegant, short-term solution to Yamaha’s litany of problems that can’t be solved overnight, and need experienced MotoGP-hardened hands to help return the Japanese manufacturer towards the top of the sport, a position it has plummeted from since Quartararo won the 2021 championship.
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