Jack Miller expressed his appreciation to Pramac Yamaha for keeping him in MotoGP after his future in the series looked uncertain beyond 2024.

KTM decided to part ways with Miller from 2025 early into the 2024 season after the Australian rider failed to get to grips with the bike.

He achieved just one podium throughout his two-year stint, which left his career hanging in the balance.

“MotoGP has been my life for 10 years now, and last year it looked like it could honestly all be over,” Miller stated to MotoGP.com.

“Since that moment, I just decided to enjoy every moment that I had on-track.

“I feel extremely blessed to be able to do this hopefully for a few more years. I feel like my time isn’t done yet – last year that was the biggest thing for me, I didn’t feel ready to step down yet, I still feel like I have more to do.

“I guess this opportunity with Yamaha and Pramac, a massive thank you to them and to Paolo [Campinoti] because he saved me.”

Yamaha ‘probably the most committed’ MotoGP entrant – Miller

The 30-year-old heaped praise on the Japanese marque’s efforts to return to the front of the pack once again.

Yamaha and Pramac formed a long-term partnership to become its satellite entity – a partnership that Miller perceives as “a second factory team.”

“Yamaha are probably the most committed out of any manufacturer that I’ve worked with, putting on a whole second factory team,” he said.

“It doesn’t stop there; that whole testing structure, moving that all to Europe and really trying to focus on more of a European base in that area [while] keeping a Japanese focus on quality and the way that they work.

“They’re finding this balance very well between the two [Europe and Japan] and they’re taking all the right steps to do that.”

Miller’s decade-long experience in the premier class will be valuable to Yamaha, considering he has spent time riding with Honda and Ducati too, and the Pramac outfit from 2018 to 2020.

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Miguel Oliveira says that his Pramac Yamaha is “very different” to the bikes he has ridden in his MotoGP career following the Barcelona test.

Following an injury-plagued 2024 season at Trackhouse, Oliveira moved to the Pramac team to become a satellite Yamaha rider and will use an Inline4 machine for the first time in his career.

The Portuguese rider said that the Yamaha bike gives “good feedback” but was unlike anything he had ridden before. 

“It was very, very different from what I was used to for sure,” Oliveira said via Crash.net.

“Especially in the braking phase it’s super different, but I have to say it was also a bike that is straight away very rider friendly.

“The bike gives you good feedback to tell you where the wheels are, and that’s super important.

“We’re not really looking for comfort or having a bike that is friendly to the rider, but a bike that is fast and I think we’re going to get an opportunity to work on that for sure.”

Miguel Oliveira: Pramac and Yamaha to take ‘more steps forward’

Oliveira admitted that he didn’t test many parts for Yamaha on his test debut, but instead the focus was on setup and having “a smooth transition” into the Pramac team. 

“It was just a good setup day I would say,” Oliveira continued.

“We had many Yamaha engineers in the garage to help the team make a smooth transition into the new bike, new software and everything else.

“I also clicked very well with my new crew chief and data guy. 

“We’re going to make more steps forward during the Winter tests for sure.

Oliveira also confirmed that the one area he would like Yamaha to improve on before the test in Sepang is “braking”.

He later added that he hoped there would be work on the stability of the bike under deceleration.

When asked about the difference between the Yamaha Inline4 and the V4s he had ridden before, Oliveira admitted that there are both positives and negatives to the new engine.

“It has positives and it has some things that need to be improved,” said Oliveira.

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