KTM has recognized what could possibly be the important thing cause behind Jack Miller‘s disastrous run of leads to the 2024 MotoGP season.

The Austrian producer believes vibration points, arising each from the brand new Michelin compounds and the latest-spec RC16, may clarify why Miller solely managed to interrupt inside the highest 10 as soon as earlier than the summer season break.

Whereas KTM stablemates Brad Binder and Pedro Acosta bagged podium finishes in the beginning of the 12 months, Miller is but to beat the fifth-place outcome he achieved in barely fortuitous circumstances in Portugal.

This has left the Australian down in sixteenth place within the standing on simply 35 factors, having scored 90 factors by the identical stage of the championship final 12 months.

A variety of riders struggled with chattering points because the 2024 MotoGP season started in Qatar in March, however the issue turned much less and fewer frequent because the 12 months went on, as riders acquired their approach round the issue.

Nonetheless, in response to KTM, each Miller and GasGas Tech3 rider Augusto Fernandez proceed to lose out on account of vibration on their bikes and are not in a position to extract the form of efficiency they’re able to.

“[Miller] is the one who’s struggling extra from the vibrations of the brand new package deal than the others,” KTM workforce supervisor Francesco Guidotti advised Motorsport.com’s sister title Motorsport-Whole.com.

“It is the package deal. We have been scuffling with vibrations because the starting of the 12 months. They’re because of the new package deal.

“Jack, like Augusto, is struggling quite a bit from these vibrations in the mean time. He cannot utilise the potential of the bike as a lot as he wish to.”

Miller has been dropped by KTM for the 2025 season as a part of a rider line-up shake-up, with Acosta shifting as much as the manufacturing unit workforce alongside Miller and Tech3 signing Enea Bastianini and Maverick Vinales from Ducati and Aprilia respectively.

The 20-year-old was initially advised privately by KTM that it desires to maintain him within the workforce for a second tenure earlier than being knowledgeable that he will not get a brand new contract in a brutal U-turn.

Fernandez, likewise underperforming in what’s his sophomore marketing campaign, has additionally not been retained by the Pierer Mobility Group.

KTM is hoping that Miller could have an additional fireplace burning inside him as he tries to impress rival producers and lengthen his future within the premier class.

“He won’t surrender,” mentioned Guidotti. “We at the moment are focussing on the remaining races this season and can maintain attempting till the tip of the season. In spite of everything, we’re right here to win.

“He will definitely wish to show that we made a mistake by not giving him one other probability.

“After all, he’ll wish to show that he deserves a spot within the MotoGP subject, then with one other producer. I actually cannot think about that he’ll surrender. He’ll wish to get pleasure from MotoGP driving to the tip.”