Aussie rider Jack Miller is on target to continue his run of top ten performances in Sunday afternoon's Spanish Grand Prix after qualifying tenth on the grid on Saturday.
Miller has opened the 2017 season in superb form with three consecutive top ten results and the Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS rider's best time of 1'39.125 in a blisteringly fast session to be within 0.8s of pole sitter Dani Pedrosa, was just another superb display.
Miller is unconcerned to be starting on the fourth row having focussed intensely on his race set-up during practice with tomorrow's 27-lap encounter set to test both rider and tyre endurance.
“My focus this weekend has been on putting in a lot of laps on races tyres ready for another top ten finish and that's what we concentrated on in practice,” he said. “In qualifying I felt really comfortable and tenth on the grid is positive for me because it was a really fast session and I did my fastest ever lap at Jerez. We are in good shape for the race tomorrow.”
Jerez was bathed in sunshine for qualifying with a track temperature of 40 degrees and the near perfect conditions were in contrast to the wet and cooler weather for Friday's practice sessions.
