Moto3

Source - http://www.news.com.au/sport/motors...ionship-in-qatar/story-fne8930l-1226862810785


AUSTRALIA, you have a new motorcycle racing star, and his name is Jack Miller.
The Townsville-born teen stormed to victory in the opening race of the Moto3 World Championship in Qatar, his maiden win in the stepping-stone class to MotoGP.
The 19-year-old KTM rider prevailed after a heated, race-long battle with Honda rival Alex Marquez, younger brother of current MotoGP world champion Marc.

After swapping the lead early on the final tour, Marquez succumbed to the heavy pressure from the Australian only a few corners from home, running wide and leaving the door open for Miller to claim his first Moto3 victory.
“I was trying to work it for the slipstream on the last lap and then Alex had the moment.
“I just had to go, like, ah, just f*** it, I’ll go alone and push, and it worked out beautifully.”
His Red Bull KTM Ajo bike crossed the line a scant two tenths of a second over his rival’s Honda, with Efren Vazquez third for Miller’s old team. The top six were covered by just 0.586 seconds.

Only a handful of Australian riders have won in the world championship’s junior class, Casey Stoner the most recent in Malaysia in 2004, coincidentally aboard a KTM.
After three years of toil and pain, wringing the neck of uncompetitive machines, breaking bones as he crashed trying to extract more than the bike would give, Miller is now on top of the world.
In his first race for his new team Miller heads to the next round at the Circuit of The Americas leading the world championship.
“I can’t thank the team enough, it was awesome,” he said. “The first race, first podium, first victory; it’s incredible.
“And sorry for my language...”
For all those worrying about our future stocks in MotoGP, Miller showed the legacy of Gardner, Doohan and Stoner is in safe hands.