{"id":222362,"date":"2025-10-18T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222362\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T09:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:15:07","slug":"jack-miller-eyeing-breakthrough-motogp-podium-at-australian-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222362\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Miller eyeing breakthrough MotoGP podium at Australian Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Australian Jack Miller has become the first local MotoGP rider since the legendary Casey Stoner to qualify on the front row at Phillip Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In a red-hot qualifying session on Saturday, Frenchman Fabio Quartararo set a lap record to claim pole, pipping in-form Italian Marco Bezzecchi in second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">But Pramac Yamaha rider Miller surprised the rest of the grid, lifting himself from Q1 to secure third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Proving his qualifying effort was no fluke, Miller finished fourth in the afternoon sprint race, setting up a tilt at greatness in Sunday&#8217;s main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Bezzecchi secured a comfortable win, finishing ahead of Raul Fernandez to make it the first Aprilia 1-2 in a sprint race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Pedro Acosta was third, with Miller just shy of a podium by 0.066 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It was the first time in 749 days that Miller managed to get on the front row, giving himself a chance of pulling off a maiden Australian MotoGP win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Less than 24 hours after Bezzecchi claimed the lap record in practice and became the first rider to go under 1.27, Quartararo took it to another level on Saturday with a time of 1.26.465.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radio\/programs\/abc-sport-daily\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Sport Daily podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">ABC Sport Daily is your daily sports conversation. We dive into the biggest story of the day and get you up to speed with everything else that&#8217;s making headlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Miller&#8217;s chances of a breakthrough win at Phillip Island will be boosted by the fact that Bezzecchi needs to serve a double long-lap penalty on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Bezzecchi was penalised for his role in the recent carnage in Indonesia that led to newly crowned world champion Marc Marquez suffering serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Marquez is unable to ride this weekend as he recovers from the crash at Mandalika a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Last year&#8217;s world champion, Jorge Martin, also failed to make the trip to Australia as he recovers from a broken collarbone sustained in Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The main race on Sunday has been shifted back an hour due to looming wet weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Organisers have confirmed the Australian GP will start at 3pm on Sunday, instead of 2pm, with up to 4 millimetres of rain and damaging winds forecast for Phillip Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Jack Miller has become the first local MotoGP rider since the legendary Casey Stoner to qualify on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[5844,64,63,16482,16230,3555,5745,806,805,803,804,134245,588,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-222362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-abc-sport","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-grand-prix","12":"tag-fabio-quartararo","13":"tag-jack-miller","14":"tag-motogp","15":"tag-motor","16":"tag-motor-sports","17":"tag-motosport","18":"tag-motosports","19":"tag-phillip-island","20":"tag-sport","21":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}