Jack Miller reveals scooter arrest incident: “That’s what kids miss these days”
Jack Miller has told of how he was arrested for riding a scooter.
Following the conclusion of the 2025 MotoGP season, Pramac Yamaha’s Jack Miller has revealed an off-track incident in Spain when he was in his mid-teens.
Miller’s proficiency on a race track is already well-proven, the Australian having scored 10 grand prix victories – including four in MotoGP – in a career that stretches back to 2011.
But what about off the track and on the road? Well, Miller himself has revealed he rode scooters as a teen, before he made it in GPs, although the revelation came as part of a light-hearted admission that he was arrested for riding without a licence.
“I already was arrested one time before,” Miller laughed, speaking to MotoGP.com.
“Riding a scooter at 15-years-old, without a licence.
“Then I had to go to the [police station] in Manresa and spend the day there and take all of my clothes off so they can check me for weapons.
“Experience at 15! Life experience! That’s what kids miss these days.”
Miller enters his 12th MotoGP season in 2026 and his second on the Pramac Yamaha team, where this year he will welcome three-time WorldSBK Champion Toprak Razgatlioglu to the other side of the garage, the Turkish star replacing Miguel Oliveira who, in turn, has replaced Razgatlioglu at BMW’s World Superbike team.
The Australian will be a key part of Yamaha’s 2026 season, as the rider with the most experience of V4 MotoGP machinery of Yamaha’s four riders. Fabio Quartararo, for example, has only ever ridden inline-four Yamahas, most of Alex Rins’ experience before he joined the Iwata marque was with Suzuki’s own inline-four GSX-RR (although he did achieve one win in his injury-hit season with LCR Honda in 2023), and the aforementioned Razgatlioglu’s experience is both not of grand prix machinery and not with V4s.
