MotoGP Austin J3: Joan Mir was sanctioned but with Jack Miller nothing is settled

Between Joan Mir and Jack Miller the bickering that started in Qatar at the start of this season continues and experienced a new episode at the end of this Grand Prix of the Americas in Austin. In a last desperate maneuver for which the stake was only a sixth place, the Suzuki official, who lost all hope of keeping his world title in Texas, opened with a crowbar the door that Jack Miller had locked for him. in a bend. Contact took place and the two men continued to explain once they had crossed the finish line…

Concerning this fact of the race, it was not to the taste of the commissioners who sanctioned Joan Mir by demoting it one place. So here he is eighth in this American race, Jack Miller seventh, but this famous sixth place goes to bastianini who is still laughing at having gained two places effortlessly, since he slipped between the two swashbucklers who had gone off the line to head towards the checkered flag.

The fact remains that anger is still alive among Jack Miller who went to tell his Majorcan executioner what he had done, grabbing his helmet so that he could certainly hear better the sweet words he was distilling to him... " The list gets longer and longer: here, Misano, Assen… He always hits me on the side. I don't care about his excuses. Of course, I can also drive aggressively, but I think I'm one of the fair drivers on the field. Sometimes things like this happen, but I stopped counting how many times this happened with him this season. You can handle the situation better, but I want to focus on my work and just make sure he can't attack me again ».

The Australian was not calmed by the sanction imposed on Joan mir : " the commissioners choose the punishment they like. Last race weekend, Aegerter got more than 30 seconds time penalty for the same infraction against Torres in MotoE. Every time I race against this guy he comes at me », gets annoyed Miller. " In Misano, I fell from 4th to 6th place, in Austin from 6th to 8th! »

Miller finished : " this maneuver made no sense to him because we both had to go far and someone could pass behind us. But apparently that's the style he wants to run in ". And apparently this affair with Mir, he wants to resolve it on his own. So, it will not be opened up in the security committee: “ No it's not necessary. In MotoGP, there is a certain respect, and then I don't want to be the one who complains about this or that. It's not me, it's not my style. I must learn to be the one who attacks, not the one who is attacked at the end of the race. This is the biggest problem, I need to work on it ».

Joan Mir: “ I don't like yelling at another driver and threatening them« 

The pilot Suzuki apologized, but Miller grabbed the world champion and made it clear he would keep an eye on him. What does the Suzuki driver say? “ I don't like yelling at another driver and threatening themr” he said. “ I didn't like his reaction at all.. I can understand him anyway, he's a good guy. I don't want to repeat what he said, but I completely understand... » minimizes Joan Mir, highlighting the tension at the end of such a complicated race. “ He always behaves very well in the race, it's true that we had 'conflicts' because we still fight. But we are pilots, I understand that he got warmed up ».

He also points out that this was only the last episode. “ My leather is marked. Miller touched me in the first corner, even Binder was quite aggressive… But I'm calm and sure to get up, very good. I don't like to criticize or yell at another rider when it's all over. » However, he does not share the sanction. “ These are things that can happen, contacts are also part of the race. They were certainly not the same commissioners from Qatar… », he minimized, thus recalling the beginning of the conflict which therefore finds no end in a general context where the question of respect for the adversary as a central question on security is posed more and more seriously. It also does not concern the MotoGP peloton.

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