Pramac Yamaha rider Jack Miller says the M1 already looks like “I’m on my bike” after the Sepang MotoGP pre-season take a look at.
The four-time race winner returns to Pramac for the 2025 marketing campaign and takes on his fourth completely different bike in his profession having beforehand ridden Honda, Ducati and KTM equipment.
After a tricky introduction to the Yamaha at Barcelona final November, Miller seemed extra comfy on the M1 from the shakedown final week and carried that type into the official take a look at.
Miller was inside the highest 10 within the standings on the primary two days and ended the ultimate day twelfth.
Having accomplished his programme for the take a look at early on Friday, Miller stated of his adaptation to the Yamaha: “I really feel good. I sit on the bike now and rolling out within the morning, typically, particularly once you change producers, it might take a little bit of time since you’re going out of the pits and the tank’s sticking you within the leg, your bars are simply completely different, and it takes a bit to adapt to what’s regular.
“This has been fairly straightforward to adapt to as soon as I bought my bars in the correct spot, as soon as I bought my pegs in the correct spot.
“The tank feels actually good, like the place the tank sits there’s not a lump or a bump or something, I don’t have sore legs which up to now has been a problem when your sitting on a motorbike otherwise and your legs aren’t flush, you may get a tough spot the place it’s digging into your leg.
“The physique feels good, and once I roll out within the morning I really feel ‘ah, I’m on my bike’, which is good after 5 days already to really feel like that.
“We’ll see with a pair days off and in Thailand how the variation is there.
“However I really feel quietly assured… like I stated, it looks like our bike.
“If you go to new tracks it’s all the time going to take a bit extra time than in the event you had previous expertise there on the bike. I’m not harassed.”
Miller had a crash at Flip 4 on the ultimate day throughout a time assault, which he says was simply all the way down to a lack of expertise of how the Yamaha behaves when it will get out of form underneath braking.
Jack Miller set for Buriram take a look at
Waiting for the following take a look at in Thailand, Miller says corner-exit is the realm he feels have to be improved on the bike.
“Braking’s actually good, mid-corner is sort of sturdy,” he added.
“It’s simply mid-corner to exit I really feel within the first sector right here my connection between releasing the brakes has gotten shorter however it might get higher.
“Simply as you’re rolling so shortly with this bike, and with the bikes I’m used to up to now, you may open the way in which it is advisable open to take the chain power away and carry that mid-corner pace, it’s one of many issues.
“At Flip 1 it’s fairly clear for me as a result of it’s fairly a spherical nook, the place there’s not plenty of grip, you’re on the sting of the tyre, you nearly use a little bit of a unique line. So, simply engaged on that.
“Braking I really feel actually sturdy. Even this afternoon I used to be enjoying a few bit with traces and perceive completely different traces, like going into Flip 1 I don’t must provoke the turning so shortly, I can form of wait just a little bit and let it brake a bit extra straight up and down earlier than tipping it in.
“I believe we nonetheless must work on the drive space and the right way to get the factor out of the corners just a bit bit nook.
“Extra so out of, I wouldn’t say the gradual nook, just like the second-to-last and final nook, I really feel like that’s fairly self-explanatory, you may really feel these ones out. However it’s extra like Turns 5, 6, simply on the change of course there.
“I really feel actually quick, mid-corner pace is sweet, however it’s jus the connection opening at six and getting the factor to switch and drive out, Yamaha has a extremely brief stroke on the throttle and that’s one thing I’d prefer to work on.
“The blokes are engaged on one thing for Thailand, simply to have just a little bit extra throw within the throttle tube mainly, simply to offer you just a little extra to play with as a result of the increments are just a little bit too brief for my liking to maintain it within the drive window.”
