Source: Red Bull KTM Ajo.

Red Bull KTM Ajo’s Jack Miller was fastest on day one at Jerez in Spain today, setting the Moto3 World Championship benchmark in another promising pre-season outing.

Miller has been consistently quick aboard the KTM since joining the team for 2014, his fastest lap on Tuesday a 1m46.975 – three tenths clear of the field.

“We definitely can improve a lot more,” Miller said. “We have many little points that we can make better, but overall it was a very, very good day today. I’m really happy with how the bike is working and with how we set up the bike today.

“For tomorrow I just need to be a little bit more consistent, I’m putting in some good laps, but it’s still not perfect and we can still improve a lot. We are going to have a lot more stuff to test tomorrow, but consistency is my main goal and I won’t be going out too aggressively.

“Sometimes I was a little overaggressive today and made mistakes as a result. I want to get my lap times down, and we need to keep positive and keep working in the same way as at Valencia. We’ve been doing a really good job so far.”

Mahindra Racing’s Arthur Sissis was 19th on day one, 2.324s shy of Miller’s front-running pace.

Esteve Rabat was fastest in Moto2 for Marc DVS Racing with a 1m42.747 lap time. Australian Anthony West was 12th fastest, 1.431s off the leader’s pace on his QMMF Racing Team Speed Up.