Jack Miller’s raw talent had never been in doubt, but his application and maturity had been – until he took the chequered flag in treacherous conditions in last weekend’s Dutch TT to seal his first MotoGP win. Nearly 10 years had passed since the sport’s last big upset, the day when Toni Elias delivered an against-the-odds victory for the satellite Gresini Honda squad in Estoril by edging out Valentino Rossi by 0.002s. But the rain, especially in the quantities that arrived in Holland on Sunday, is a great leveller – all the more so in bike racing, where the man on the saddle makes up a larger percentage of the overall package than a Grand Prix driver could ever dream of doing. On...
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