After stints as a manufacturing unit MotoGP rider for each Ducati and KTM, Jack Miller insists he feels absolutely a part of a “four-rider group” at Yamaha this season – regardless of returning to satellite tv for pc standing for the primary time since his Pramac Ducati days.
The Australian signed with the newly fashioned Pramac Yamaha mission, marking the primary time Yamaha has equipped equal factory-spec equipment to an impartial group.
Though nonetheless in its early phases, Miller insists the 2 squads – Monster and Pramac – are co-operating absolutely.
“Completely. We share just about every thing. We’re speaking on a regular basis, discussing completely different adjustments, discussing completely different setups and stuff like that,” Miller defined.
“All through the day, we’re speaking to one another concerning the adjustments that we have made, which path we imagine the bike is working in a different way and so forth. I really feel like we’re a four-rider squad.”
“Ducati have it working one of the best”
Miller has probably the most numerous expertise inside Yamaha’s newly expanded line-up, having beforehand raced in MotoGP with Honda, Ducati, and KTM.
The 30-year-old has taken podiums with all three producers and secured race wins for Honda and Ducati.
Now tasked with serving to Yamaha rebound from its first podium-less MotoGP season, Miller confirmed the present focus is on “rear grip and electronics”.
“Ducati have it working one of the best out of anyone I feel,” he mentioned of the Magneti Marelli management electronics.
“Yamaha are nonetheless studying methods to take the utmost out of the software program, additionally when it comes to the tooling, to make the changes.
“They [Yamaha] are working extraordinarily onerous. Already I feel it’s ten occasions higher than final yr and week by week we’re getting updates and completely different software program to attempt to work with this system higher.”
The goal is “much less invasive slicing [for the traction control] and extra parameters to work with.”
That growth will proceed at spherical three of the 2025 season, at COTA this weekend, an occasion Miller will begin thirteenth on the planet championship, as the highest Yamaha rider.
