In Sky Sports Italia, the channel that covers MotoGP in the transalpine country, they speculated these days with a trade that could break the world market. With the majority of pilots renewed by 2020, they imagined a change of stickers. The possibility was as follows: Jorge Lorenzo would return to Ducati next year to run on the satellite team, Pramac Racing, and the driver of that group, the young Jack Miller , would go to the official Honda team. In principle, the exchange sounded crazy for Lorenzo's resignation of a factory motorcycle and acceptance in a team as hermetic as Honda of a pilot as his as Miller, but ...

This Thursday, at the press conference prior to the Austrian Grand Prix, Miller was asked about the issue and his response surprised everyone. "I did not give credibility to those rumors before that weekend, but based on the 'feedback' with mine it seems that there is some truth. [...] The last thing the team told me is that they were with the budget, I don't know anymore. I'm quite patient, I'll see what happens, I just want to know what I have to do to have a contract next year, "said the Australian who is one of the few drivers on the grid that has not yet been renewed.

"We will see what happened when Jorge returns from the Maldives or wherever he is [the Spaniard was there on vacation a few weeks ago, he is now at his home in Switzerland]. Then we will discover what the future holds. For now I focus in what I can do and I don't get stressed. If I continue driving as I will continue in the World Cup next year, "Miller said that, after getting his second podium of the season in Brno, he is seventh in the championship and the best driver of a satellite team above Cal Crutchlow .

For the Australian, the ascent to Honda would be a gift from heaven, but for Lorenzo the arrival at Pramac Racing can also have advantages. In a few months the Spanish has already been able to verify that the Honda is a motorcycle created by and for Marc Márquez and that his driving style, contrary to that of the current champion, does not fit that reality. The constant falls and the serious physical problems he has suffered since he signed for the Japanese brand have led him to prepare another brand change in search of a better future. Now after missing three races, he is sixteenth in the World Cup with 19 points, less than two for the event held.

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