{"id":286741,"date":"2025-11-15T19:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286741\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:13:09","slug":"jack-miller-slams-not-valid-penalty-claims-no-consistency-from-motogp-stewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286741\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Miller slams \u201cnot valid\u201d penalty, claims \u201cno consistency\u201d from MotoGP stewards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pramac\u2019s Jack Miller has raged at his \u201cnot valid\u201d penalty for a collision with Fermin Aldeguer in the MotoGP Valencia Grand Prix sprint, and says the stewards are inconsistent.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian was told to drop three spots after making contact with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1043650\/fermin-aldeguer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fermin Aldeguer<\/a> at Turn 2 during Saturday\u2019s sprint, which he says he chose to ignore as it was \u201cridiculous\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, the FIM stewards then converted his punishment to a long lap, which lost him three spots anyway, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1452\/jack-miller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Miller<\/a> 12th behind Aldeguer at the chequered flag.<\/p>\n<p>In a fiery outburst during his media debrief on Saturday evening in Valencia, Miller tore into the penalty and what he felt was \u201cdodgem\u201d riding by Aldeguer.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could see the dashboard, but three positions at that point when you are two seconds in front of the next bike is kind of ridiculous,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I was not going to do it. And then when the long lap came, I understood that a long lap can go into tomorrow\u2019s grand prix, so it was better to do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI lost three positions anyway, so you be the judge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThe penalty is not, in my opinion, valid. It\u2019s impossible to pass someone if they release the brakes on top of you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI passed him already once in the last corner. He continued to ride over my front tyre. We exited onto the straight together, but of course, the bike is a rocket ship.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, he goes away. I spend the next lap and a half deciding when to make the best move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got the best possible drive I could out of Turn 1 into Turn 2. I had everything under control, and as soon as I got side by side with him, he started to release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI then had to go tighter and tighter and tighter. At some point, you&#8217;re going to make contact because we\u2019re both releasing the brakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe smart move, if he believed he was going to pass me back, would be to release the brake and cut under.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if you ride like this, you are forcing contact and it\u2019s not correct.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen you take wings off a rider last week, you T-bone me last week [in Portugal], and nothing. And then this week you force the contact and I get the penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he felt Aldeguer\u2019s riding was because he is a rookie, Miller said this was a trend among younger riders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, it\u2019s the new generation,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the style of riding. There are multiple guys on the grid who do it, generally younger guys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if you continue to turn in over the top of somebody when somebody is initiating the pass, contact is inevitable.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook back through the years, in terms of what they\u2019ve done. It\u2019s not even a game of chicken: it\u2019s the law of physics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gng_1282963_hires_0.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Jack Miller, Pramac Yamaha, 2025 Valencia MotoGP\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Jack Miller, Pramac Yamaha, 2025 Valencia MotoGP<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n<p>  Consistency \u201cis not there\u201d from stewards, says Miller<\/p>\n<p>Miller declined to go to his stewards meeting on Saturday, but took exception to what he feels was a lack of consistency in how penalties have been assessed recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t go to the stewards meeting, because better I don\u2019t,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m sure I will speak with Simon [Crafar, chief steward] at a later date, which is better for both of us.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe make that easy. Like I said, I\u2019m trying to do the best I can on a bike that\u2019s underpowered, you cannot pass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you make a clean pass, they make it more difficult by releasing the brakes and trying to ride over your front tyre. This is not racing. This is dodgem cars at the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at consistency: what happened with [Brad] Binder [after Aldeguer contact] last week? Not one penalty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened with me last week? Not one penalty. So, speaking about consistency is not even fucking remotely in the picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get banned for 10 minutes of a session, because my bike is smoking.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we let a bike compete nearly half the grand prix smoking and win the grand prix [in Japan with Pecco Bagnaia]. I get a \u20ac3000 fine for the same thing. Consistency is not there; it\u2019s clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller was actually banned for five minutes of FP2 in Austria and fined \u20ac1000 for riding with a smoking engine on Friday at the Red Bull Ring.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pramac\u2019s Jack Miller has raged at his \u201cnot valid\u201d penalty for a collision with Fermin Aldeguer in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,12370,3555,806,805,803,804,7188,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-286741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fermin-aldeguer","11":"tag-jack-miller","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-prima-pramac-yamaha","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286741","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=286741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}