The Australian spent 5 seasons with Ducati, initially with Pramac between 2018 and 2020, earlier than stepping as much as its manufacturing facility squad in 2021.
The four-time race winner has switched to KTM for 2023 and loved a powerful debut on the Portuguese Grand Prix, ending fourth within the dash and seventh in the primary race.
Evaluating the RC16 to the Desmosedici he beforehand rode and which received each races in Portugal, Miller stated: “To be sincere I felt it was lower than the Ducati by way of physicality.
“The bike itself is fairly nimble. My neck was a bit stiff in the direction of the tip, but it surely all the time will get fairly stiff right here in Portimao.
“You’ve obtained three rights in a row on the first corners, so the time you turn over for the following nook you’re making an attempt to stretch it.”
KTM’s pre-season wasn’t easy and the group gave the impression to be on the again foot coming into the primary spherical of the season.
However each manufacturing facility riders making it into the highest seven in the primary race, in addition to Miller ending Friday quickest and qualifying fifth confirmed the KTM is in a greater place than initially thought.
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Jack Miller, Pink Bull KTM Manufacturing unit Racing
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How near the frontrunners it’s is not going to change into obvious till after the following few rounds, given the Portuguese GP adopted two days of testing on the Algarve venue.
However Miller believes that each one the work KTM has completed in refining the set-up of the RC16 in Portugal can pay dividends within the coming rounds.
“I really feel just like the steps we’ve made by way of electronics and technique and that sort of factor, by way of set-up our plan coming into this grand prix was to not flip the bike the other way up anymore,” Miller added.
“We’d been doing that, and we sort of obtained comfy on the final day [of testing].
“Our primary plan for this grand prix was simply regular race weekend stuff, let’s play with settings, let’s get the bike in an honest place and work on myself using the bike. And I believe we’ve been ready to do this.
“Cross my fingers, we received’t know until we get there, however I actually do assume that the technique we’ve obtained now, the best way we’ve obtained the electronics in place, the best way the chassis is working, we are able to make it work at these upcoming occasions.”
