Jack Miller

He finished 23rd in the Moto3 Championship that year with 17 points, and a best finish of 4th at the German Grand Prix, at the Sachsenring.

Jack Peter Miller (born 18 January 1995) is an Australian Grand Prix motorcycle racer who rides for the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing in MotoGP.

Miller has been racing motorbikes since he was eight years old, originally starting on dirt bikes, where he was the Australian Dirt Bike champion in the 65cc category in 2003.

He went on to win five other Australian championships in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and numerous other local and state titles in dirt bike racing and motocross events.

He claimed three more top 10 finishes to end the year 18th in the standings, with 57 points.

He was the German 2011 IDM 125cc International Champion.

2011 was his breakout year in Europe.

A string of strong performances saw him win the championship in the German IDM 125cc category at the age of 16.

He achieved his best finish with 11th at Catalunya, following the British Grand Prix, where Miller moved up the order in the early stages, but collided with teammate Crutchlow on the third lap.

He finished the year 11th in the standings, with 82 points.

This title won the attention of Caretta Technology's Forward Racing, an Italian race team who signed Miller to ride in the 2012 Moto3 Championship.

2012 was Miller's first year in the Moto3 World Championship, riding for Caretta Technology Forward Racing on a Honda chassis.

While the bike was not competitive, it allowed Miller the opportunity to learn the circuits he would be racing in the coming years.

He was the first Australian to win a MotoGP race since Casey Stoner in Australia 2012, and the first satellite rider to win a race since Toni Elias in Portugal in 2006.

Miller's odds of winning going into the race were said to be 750–1, making it the biggest winning upset in MotoGP history.

The rest of his season had mixed fortunes, with occasional speed being blighted by injuries, including a fractured vertebrae in Austria.

Miller moved to Racing Team Germany for the 2013 season, riding an FTR Honda chassis.

Miller achieved 13 points-scoring finishes during the season, and finished in seventh place in the final championship standings.

His best results were two 5th places, at the San Marino race, and his home Australian Grands Prix.

Miller moved to a factory-backed KTM motorcycle for the 2014 season, joining the Red Bull KTM Ajo team.

He had a breakout season, recording his first fastest lap, pole position, podium finish and victory in the category.

In total, he won six races during the season (Qatar, USA, France, Germany, Australia, and Valencia), and finished the season as runner-up to Álex Márquez in the championship, missing out on the title by just two points.

Miller finished in 14th place at Qatar, and at Catalunya, he finished the race in a career best 10th place.

On 26 June at Assen, Miller was running strongly in the top 10, before the race was red flagged due to heavy rain.

The race restarted for a 12 lap shootout, and Miller clung on to the leaders in the early laps.

He was running in 4th by the end of lap 1, and inherited 3rd when Andrea Dovizioso crashed, right behind factory Honda rider Marc Márquez.

On lap 3 race leader Valentino Rossi crashed out, and a lap later Miller overtook Màrquez for the race lead.

He held his nerve for the rest of the race and pulled away to claim his first premier class victory.

For the 2015 season, Miller graduated into the MotoGP class, forming a part of an expanded two-rider Team LCR outfit, partnering Cal Crutchlow, and riding on an open specification Honda RC213V-RS.

Miller has won four races in the premier class, his first at the 2016 Dutch TT on a Marc VDS Honda, his second and third in consecutive weekends of May 2021, at Jerez, Spain, and Le Mans, France on a Ducati, Motegi Japan in 2022 and has finished as the championship runner-up in the 2014 Moto3 World Championship.

Miller now uses the nickname 'Thriller', whereas earlier in his career he was known as 'Jackass'.

Born in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Miller grew up on a property outside the city.

A tropical city where he made his own fun, riding his motorbike and quad bike, water skiing and lending a hand with fencing and cattle mustering.

His parents and siblings have supported his racing career every step of the way, helping him reach his goal of racing in the World Championship.

For the 2016 MotoGP World Championship, Miller moved to the Marc VDS Racing Team.

He returned to the team for 2017, and although sometimes seemed to lack the raw pace from the previous season, he matured and became a more consistent points scorer.

This fact was recognised by Honda, who gave him a chance to ride their factory bike at the Suzuka 8 Hours.

He recorded nine top-10 finishes during the season, with a best finish of sixth coming twice at Assen, and in the wet at Misano.

Despite breaking his leg whilst training before Japan, he returned for his home race in Australia and led the early laps.

Miller finished his rookie season in 19th place, with 17 points.