JACK MILLER SUFFERS A DISRUPTIVE MISANO RACE AS PRAMAC YAMAHA STRUGGLES
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Jack Miller’s San Marino Grand Prix at Misano ended in a difficult “zero” as the Pramac rider was forced out early after a crash in the opening stages. Speedweek reports that only a third of the field, and just half of the Yamaha machines, made it through the race distance, with Miller among those who did not finish.
For Miller, the weekend had already gone off track before it could really get going. He was eliminated in the gravel at the end of lap two, turning the Adriatic outing into a “nothing special” type of weekend for the Australian. His results across the weekend reflected the struggle: 18th in qualifying, 17th in the sprint, and then 19th in the race classification—behind former teammate Pecco Bagnaia, who also had to deal with his bike following the GP.
Miller said the Misano weekend felt unlike what he had experienced in recent rounds. “It was overall an unusual weekend in Italy,” he explained. “Because in the previous events we had a different level, better feeling and results—it just went differently than expected.”
Despite the setback, Miller and his team did not want to accept defeat without trying to fight for track position. For race day, the M1 was adjusted to give him a better chance to recover from the back. Miller described how the early laps went: “I tried to make up a lot of places early, because later it’s incredibly hard to come forward. That worked really well at the beginning.”
The turning point came around Turn 8. Miller recalled that a tight group formed ahead of him: “Before Turn 8, Diogo, Fabio and I were all very close together, and everyone braked very late—we were all no longer on the line—and that’s what caught me.”
He briefly got the bike moving again, but the restart did not solve the underlying issues. Miller said, “I got the bike going again, but there was an error message with the traction control. I could switch that off again, but then the clutch didn’t work correctly anymore.”
The retirement ended a streak of four consecutive MotoGP point-scoring arrivals for Miller, and he slipped back in the championship standings. Speedweek notes he was 19th in the table, immediately ahead of Yamaha teammates Alex Rins and Raúl Fernández Razgatlioglu.
With Miller set to leave MotoGP after 2026 and move to the Yamaha Superbike R1 in 2027, Misano also marked another step on his farewell tour. He will race at the Red Bull Ring next, where he previously stood on the podium twice as a MotoGP rider. Speedweek adds that the Steiermark circuit is not currently on the Superbike World Championship calendar.