Jack Miller said goodbye to Sepang for now, having failed on day three to really make a final attack on the times. He also revealed that he came close to crashing at various times, and that the aerodynamics work very closely with the electronic set-up, which is crucial.
The KTM rider finished with the 14th best time on the grid, and revealed why he wasn’t able to properly attack the times: ‘My weakness today is that when I tried to attack the times and try to keep the rear “in shape”, so to speak – as I had countless highside moments – it all comes down to, and aerodynamics has a lot to do with it, whether in terms of lean angle, position… you feel like you’re riding really well, you start to pick up the bike and suddenly the traction is gone. It’s all to do with the electronics more than anything else’.
As for the engine, he said that rather than being a revolution, it was just improved: ‘I feel that the engine is quite similar in terms of explosion. We didn’t try to reinvent the wheel when it came to the engine, the engine was already strong, it needed polishing and that’s what they did more than anything else’.