Jack Miller completed his best qualifying performance of the season for Sunday's Grand Prix of the Americas.
Miller will start 12th from the fourth row of the grid for the 21-lap race in Texas.
Miller was forced to switch to his spare Honda RC213V after an early crash cost him a chance of a much faster time.
The Australian rider had progressed into the Q2 session with an impressive lap of 2'04.438 that put him top of the timesheets in Q1 ahead of three time world champion Jorge Lorenzo.
Finally Miller posted a time of 2'05.970 in Q2 on his back-up machine with a strong comeback after his spill at turn two.
“I always knew that Q2 was going to be difficult because we didn't have enough new tyres left and in the cooler conditions I got caught out,” the Aussie rider explained. “I was wide at turn one, completely off line, and then went to cruise through turn two and completely lost the front. A slow and strange crash. But I am happy with my speed for the race and I've started from much worse than 12th position and got into the top ten. I'm not fussed if it's warmer like Friday or cool for the race, I have a good feeling for this track.”
