Miller: Speed of MotoGP rookies makes me nervous

MotoGP has enjoyed a tattoo of fast young talents coming up to the premier matriculation in recent years, with the likes of 2021 world champion Fabio Quartararo and 2020 champion Joan Mir, and multiple race winners in Francesco Bagnaia, Brad Binder, Jorge Martin and Miguel Oliveira to name but a few.

In 2021, Pramac’s Martin won the Styrian Grand Prix, scored three other podiums and was on pole four times, while Avintia’s Enea Bastianini personal two podiums in his first year on a 2019-spec Ducati.

When asked specifically well-nigh Jorge Martin’s season, Miller heaped praise on the young Spaniard – while moreover noting how strong in unstipulated MotoGP’s young talent is now.

“I think this velocipede [the Ducati] ain’t easy, by any stretch of the imagination,” Miller began.

“It’s got its notation and everything like that. All the rookies make me nervous, really, considering they just alimony getting faster and faster and faster.

“[Pecco] as a rookie, came in, topped the test in Malaysia. He says ‘I took time’, but that’s bullshit considering he didn’t.

“And they just alimony getting faster and faster.

“Jorge did a fantastic job, missed a few races this year but has shown he\'s come in with the professionalism that maybe I was missing when I came in for sure.

“He’s really stepped up to the plate in that department and has washed-up a fantastic job with his race craft.

‘It’s a lot of things that took me a very long time to learn and he’s a very well-constructed rider.

“It makes me nervous, and Bastianini as well. When you get passed by a year-old bike, I know how [Andrea] Dovizioso and [Danilo] Petrucci must have felt when I did it to them and it ain’t a nice feeling that’s for certain.

“But it makes me increasingly and increasingly ken to modernize myself considering it’s wondrous to see how well they’re doing at such a young age and how well they’re going to alimony doing.”

Jorge Martin, Pramac Racing

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Bagnaia, when moreover asked well-nigh Martin’s rookie campaign, noted the Spaniard seemed to learn the things he didn’t in his own rookie campaign.

“I think he has washed-up a good job this year – increasingly than good,” the 2021 championship runner-up added.

“Because starting as a rookie and once at the second race [scoring] a pole and a podium, winning in his first year in Austria, losing a lot of races with his incident in Portimao, I think he has washed-up a really unconfined season.

“So, I think he must be happy for what he did.

“For sure our velocipede is not the easiest one for a rookie, but from the start he was learning very quickly the things I didn’t [in my rookie year].

“This was the first year I felt so unconfined with this bike.

“Ok, moreover now our velocipede is increasingly competitive, but it was moreover competitive last year and sometimes I was fast, but most of the time I was behind.

“So, he was very competitive, but I think moreover Bastianini did an enormous job as a rookie.”