‘That dickhead’s going to crash’: The story behind Aussie’s 1000-1 Assen stunner

Once he was finished pulling pints for his team, Jack Miller found a bottle of tequila and downed it at a rapid rate . Then he fished the mescal worm out of the bottom of the bottle and devoured that. It was mayhem, and it was completely justified.

Miller moved to fellow satellite team Marc VDS for the following season, where results were slow to come by. A massive crash in practice in Texas saw him miss the Americas GP with a foot injury, but he’d recovered sufficiently to take a top-10 result – his first – in Catalunya two weeks before MotoGP set up in the Netherlands.

The race was halted, and Miller figured that was that – and would have been happy to dry off and head for home.“I would have liked to have been further up but it was absolutely the right call to stop it,” he later recounted to this author for a rider diary for sponsor Red Bull. “I got the sense Marc had buttoned off a bit once Valentino went down and that’s completely understandable. He’s not worried about me. I’m not winning the championship this year and had pretty much nothing to lose, so I figured he wouldn’t fight too hard if I tried to make a pass.”

“I mean, if I went past myself I’d be like, ‘Oh, that dickhead’s going to crash in two minutes’,” Miller continued, the assembled media giggling.

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