“As soon as I rolled out of pitlane, I was pleasantly surprised. The grip was there immediately and we were able to push from the get-go,” said Miller, debriefing after his fine Friday efforts. “It’s a lot nicer riding here in these temperatures that what we had last year and no, just enjoying it. The bike, like I said to the boys in the debrief, in the last two corners with the double apex, you can pick up the gas and let’s say in the past we had to manage it quite a lot, whereas now we have a nice consistent gas all the way through and it will keep turning, and it’s not rolling off the edge of the tyre.