Jack Miller became the first person to ride a MotoGP machine on a salt lake, during Thursday's build-up to this weekend's Argentine round. The CWM LCR Honda rookie set out on the Salinas Grandes salt desert in Jujuy, where the usual serenity was shattered by the ground-shaking sound of his RC213V-RS. Located in Northern Argentina, at 3,500m above sea level, the Salinas Grandes spans over 6,000 square kilometres. Salt lakes have traditionally been used for land speed record attempts, but never before had a modern MotoGP bike been ridden. “It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience to go up that high into the mountains and discover a big salt-flat like that. It was pretty cool,” said the...
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