Ducati comes into 2022 as the hot favourite to take the battle to Fabio Quartararo and Yamaha in the championship after a strong end to 2021, in which it arguably emerged with the best bike on the grid having won seven races to Yamaha’s six.
Championship runner-up Francesco Bagnaia called the 2021 Ducati “perfect” at last November’s Jerez test and heaped praise on the early 2022 prototype.
And Miller – who was 14th on the combined times at Sepang after an issue stopped him from completing another time attack before the rain came on Sunday – feels “the potential is there big style” with the updated 2022 bike brought to Malaysia.
“Just already yesterday [Saturday] shaking it down, overcoming some of the issues we were having, we were able to overcome most of them today,” Miller said of his new bike.
“I only got to do one time attack this morning, we had an issue with the bike, so in saying that to go and push on one tyre and do the time we did [a 1m58.645s],…
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