For a second straight season, Jack Miller needed Yamaha to extend his stay on the MotoGP grid.

For a second straight season, Yamaha realised – eventually, but better late than never – that it needed Miller to fast-track where it wants to go, and help determine how soon it can get there.

Miller had no leverage, but Yamaha was left with no choice. Which is why the 30-year-old Australian’s MotoGP career will extend into a 12th season in 2026 , after a 2025 campaign that has shown flashes of promise for both rider and machine, but where the returns on that optimism have only been intermittent.

Miller had been around MotoGP for long enough – and predominantly on one-year contracts for the majority of his career – to not get spooked by being the final rider signed for the 2025 season and

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