Yamaha source explains how Pramac’s Jack Miller is helping Fabio Quartararo reach another level

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Jack Miller’s MotoGP future could hinge on the upcoming back-to-back in Germany and Czechia. Yamaha will soon decide which rider will partner Toprak Razgatlioglu at Pramac.

If Miguel Oliveira ranked inside Yamaha’s top three, Miller’s career may be over. The Portuguese rider is under contract, but he isn’t meeting the performance benchmark that would guarantee him a 2026 seat.

As Miller chases an extension, Yamaha will consider several factors. On-track performance will, of course, be one of them, and the Australian has outscored his teammate 19-6 in the races where both have featured.

Commercial factors weigh in Miller’s favour, but Paolo Pavesio and co. must also consider the team’s long-term development. After returning to the podium this year, they hope that they’re on a path back to the front of MotoGP.

Jack Miller can force Fabio Quartararo to ‘give more of himself’ at Yamaha

At the heart of that long-term vision sits Fabio Quartararo, one of the most coveted riders on the grid. Yamaha are likely to consult Quartararo before selecting Razgatlioglu’s teammate.

And one unnamed team insider, who was speaking to Manuel Pecino, said that El Diablo benefits from the presence of Miller. The Australian was the lead rider on the M1 in Thailand and the Americas.

Quartararo doesn’t necessarily face a challenge from within his own garage. He leads Alex Rins 24-1 in competitive sessions this season.

Miller hasn’t got close consistently, but he may have the second-highest ceiling. And that could force Quartararo to ‘give more of himself’.

Pecino said: “Speaking with someone from Yamaha, whose name I obviously can’t say, he told me that Yamaha would be much more interested in Jack Miller, because Jack Miller can force Fabio to give more of himself in situations where he’s not comfortable.”

Gino Borsoi explains how Jack Miller and Miguel Oliveira are ‘completely different’

Pecino was interviewing Pramac manager Gino Borsoi, who accepted that his two 2025 riders were ‘opposites’.

Oliveira thrives on a competitive motorcycle, whereas Miller is most valuable as an underdog. Yamaha will know that they’re on the right track if they can get results out of two contrasting riders.

But perhaps there’s also a sense that both will have served their purpose at that stage. Indeed, Moto2 rider Diogo Moreira has been linked with a Pramac seat, so an all-new line-up isn’t out of the question.

“[Oliveira] needs the bike to go fast,” Borsoi said. “This is true. Is he the opposite of Jack? Correct.

“Those are the two figures we have chosen to lead the evolution. At the end of the day, you need a bike that everyone can use. If you look at the evolution of Ducati, at the beginning it was a critical bike that only a few riders were capable of riding, and now anyone gets on the bike and is capable of going fast.

“That’s the philosophy we’ve tried to implement with Yamaha from minute one in this project: two completely different figures that don’t look alike at all as a character and as a way of riding.

“In the end, if you can make both of them go fast, it’s a bike that anyone can ride.”