During the MotoGP summer break, Jack Miller headed home to Australia for a spot of motocrossing. Unlike most of his follow MotoGP riders, however, Miller decided to not limit himself to laps on his own, and went up against the best in the country instead.

Miller headed to Toowoomba at the weekend to race the Australian Pro MX race there, in the premier MX1 class. Although the race wins were split between former MX2 World Championship podium finisher Jed Beaton, and Kyle Webster - who, a couple of weeks before, was leading laps and finishing in the top 10 at the AMA Pro Motocross race at RedBud - Miller far from disgraced himself with 23-24 finishes on a track which presented unique conditions with deep, clay ruts.

Miller's Toowoomba race is not the only time in recent memory that a MotoGP rider has competed on a one-off basis outside of MotoGP on a programme they put together themselves - Miller himself raced at the final round of the Australian Superbike Championship at The Bend when he was a Ducati rider, for example. Additionally, Andrea Dovizioso famously raced an Italian Motocross Championship race during the Covid break in 2020, and injured himself in the process. Currently Moto2 rider Diogo Moreira also won a round of the Supermoto World Championship in the middle of his debut Moto3 season in 2022.

Miller and the rest of the Grand Prix field will be back in action in a couple of weeks for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on 2-4 August.