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During the MotoGP summer break, Jack Miller returned home to Australia to take up motocross. But unlike most MotoGP riders who follow him, Miller decided not to just do laps alone, but to compete against the best riders in the country.
Miller headed to Toowoomba this weekend to take part in the Australian Pro MX race there, in the elite MX1 class. Although the race win was split between former MX2 world champion Jed Peyton and Kyle Webster – who two weeks earlier had led laps and finished 10th in the AMA Pro Motocross race at Redbud – Miller didn’t disgrace himself by finishing 23-24 on a track that featured unique conditions with deep mud ruts.
Miller’s Toowoomba race wasn’t the only time in recent memory that a MotoGP rider has competed on a one-off basis outside of MotoGP in a programme they put together themselves – Miller himself raced the final round of the Australian Superbike Championship at The Bend when he was a Ducati rider, for example. In addition, Andrea Dovizioso competed in the famous Italian Motocross Championship during the Covid break in 2020, picking up an injury in the process. Currently, Moto2 rider Diogo Moreira has also won a round of the Supermoto World Championship midway through his first Moto3 season in 2022.
Miller and the rest of the Grand Prix field will be back in action in a few weeks for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on August 2-4.
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