Red Bull KTM Ajo rider confident of further improvement.
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.
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