Jack Miller has had his motorcycling career immortalised by having a corner at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit named after him.

Turn 4, currently informally known as Honda, has been renamed Miller Corner from this weekend onwards after a ceremony on Saturday afternoon.

The corner is well known as being home of Miller’s core supporter base, with his family and friends setting up camp annually at turn 4 to cheer on the four-time MotoGP winner at his home race.

It puts Miller alongside legendary company in the motorcycling community, joining Wayne Gardner, Mick Doohan and Casey Stoner as having parts of the world-renowned circuit named after them.

“I remember coming here for my first time watching a grand prix in 2009 and being able to sneak up over here,” Miller said.

“Ever since that day I’ve been hooked. I knew from then on that’s what I wanted to do.

“I remember back to the Moto3 race here, the amount of dive-bombs I put on here,” he said.

“It’s an unreal part of the track, and so many historical moments have happened here.

“To be back here, having this honour, is amazing. I can’t even begin to describe the journey we’ve been on and what we’ve been through.

“I’ve been so fortunate in this sport, what it’s given back to me. I love this sport immensely and I’m thankful to everyone who put this together. They don’t really know exactly what it means to me.”

The Townsville native has enjoyed an international career of more than 11 seasons on the grand prix tour, including eight years in the premier class.

He most notably became one of a small group of riders to successfully switch from Moto3 straight to MotoGP, claiming his first premier-class win in just his second season.

That victory, at the Dutch TT in 2016, was the first for an independent rider in a decade, coming on a Marc VDS satellite Honda.

His three-year switch to Pramac Ducati yielded five podiums, after which he followed in Stoner’s footsteps with a promotion to the factory Ducati team.

But despite claiming three victories and nine other podiums, his two-year spell on the Desmosedici will come to an end this year, with the Queenslander set to become KTM’s senior factory rider from 2023.

Miller is in the best form of his career, having outscored every rider bar teammate Francesco Bagnaia in the second half of this season.

He’s an outside championship hope with a 40-point deficit to Fabio Quartararo with three rounds remaining.

The Aussie finished 13th at the end of second practice on Friday afternoon after struggling with set-up problems in the sport’s first visit to Phillip Island since 2019.

“We‘ve got some ideas of what we need to change for tomorrow, but it’s just one of those things with Phillip Island,” he said.

“I feel good. I have no issue with what we can do with the bike. I’ve got a decent plan for [Saturday].”

Qualifying is set to start at 2:10pm.