The opening day of action on the sun-blessed Adriatic Coast proved to be a challenging one for Aussie rider Jack Miller, who was unhurt in a small crash at the first corner in the second free session ahead of this weekend's San Marino Grand Prix.
While content with his pace in race trim, Miller was not able to improve his speed by as much as he'd anticipated in FP2 after he'd finished an encouraging 13th in the morning session.
Further underlining the competitive nature of this year's MotoGP World Championship, Miller may have found himself down in 18th place in the afternoon, but he was only 1.1s off top spot.
“I feel reasonably happy with how the bike is feeling today but you can see from the final position that there are some places we can improve,” said the Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS rider. “It seems of late that when the guys switch to the time attack at the end of the session they can find a bigger chunk of time than me.”
‘I'm only able to find a couple of tenths on a new tyre than my pace on a used medium option. My race pace is not bad but we'll need to find some more speed in FP3 tomorrow morning to try and get into that top 10 for Q2. Hopefully it will be dry so we get a good crack at it.”
