That honour went to Jack Miller<\/a>, who finished behind Pramac<\/a> team-mate Toprak Razgatlioglu on the road, but was promoted to 15th after the Turkish rider was penalised for exceeding track limits.<\/p>\n Jack Miller, Pramac Yamaha, 2026 Italian MotoGP<\/p>\n \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n He said it was a fun battle, which \u201chelps improve the package\u201d.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cIt was as fun as fighting for one point is; if it was for the win, you would enjoy it a lot more,\u201d he said on Sunday at Mugello.<\/p>\n \u201cAnyone would think we are fighting for the victory for sure. It’s bragging rights at the end of the day, but that’s what we’re there for.<\/p>\n \u201cThose little fights between us all, I believe, make us better riders, but it also helps improve the package.\u201d<\/p>\n Miller is facing an uncertain future in MotoGP, with his place at Pramac linked to Moto2 frontrunner Izan Guevara.<\/p>\n Outside of Pramac, there are few options, while rumours of Australian Senna Agius making the step from Moto2 likely harming Miller\u2019s prospects.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Asked if other teams may have been watching his battle at Mugello, he replied: \u201cIt’s up to them. I don’t know what other people think; it’s just how I feel when I go home.\u201d<\/p>\n As well as a lack of straightline speed at Mugello, a lack of turning was a major complaint all Yamaha riders had last weekend.<\/p>\n Jack Miller, Pramac Yamaha, 2026 Italian MotoGP<\/p>\n \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n Miller admits the bike struggled in this area, but he feels the chassis he has been using since Jerez is the direction for Yamaha to go in.<\/p>\n \u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy for sure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cWe know that. Since Malaysia, we\u2019ve been trying to make steps to work on it.<\/p>\n \u201cWe made a step, I’ve been using this different chassis since Jerez.<\/p>\n \u201cOutright performance, maybe it’s not as good as the other one, but in terms of feedback and understanding of the tyre, I’m quite happy with it; that’s the direction we want to work and understand how we can improve performance as well with that package.\u201d<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Miller says \u201canyone would think we are fighting for the victory\u201d after a tight battle with his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,3555,806,805,803,804,7188,85],"class_list":["post-710789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jack-miller","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-prima-pramac-yamaha","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710789","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=710789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jack](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gng_1320517_hires.jpg\")
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