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MotoGP Austin: Miller beats Lorenzo with cracked collarbone

Pramac Ducati's Jack Miller broke his collarbone and suffered a rotator cuff tear in a mountain bike crash before the Austin MotoGP round but still managed to finish in ninth place - two ahead of Jorge Lorenzo on the factory GP18 - yesterday.

Miller kept the injury quiet over the Texas weekend but admitted afterwards he had been training in California and crashed - but was lucky a fall in free practice didn't aggravate the injury.

"I expected more coming into the weekend, but we struggled with the bike set-up from the get-go, and I was struggling with a shoulder injury that I carried into the weekend as well. Not ideal," said Miller.

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"We kept pretty quiet about the shoulder all weekend, but now we're done, I can admit that it wasn't great. I was out training in California after Argentina, and I fell off doing some mountain biking.

"The injuries are nothing that some rest time and recovery can't handle, but I ended up with some muscle damage, some bruising and a little tear on my rotator cuff on my right shoulder. And a crack in my collarbone as well.

"I tell you, sometimes the time between the races can be more dangerous than the race weekends themselves."

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