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Video: Maverick Viñales added his first points with Aprilia and improves with the bike: "It wasn't bad, but I expected more"
2024 Author: Nicholas Abramson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-10 16:34
Maverick Viñales already knows what it means to score points riding an Aprilia of MotoGP. The Spanish driver finished thirteenth at Misano, scoring three more points on his locker, but still not too satisfied with the race he did. And it is that in training he came to lead the FP1.
Viñales sinned again from a bad startAlthough the race pace afterwards was very good and allowed him to reach the points zone. It was only his second race with the new bike, but little by little he is getting to know himself with the Aprilia and he was already able to overcome a good part of the regular riders of the world championship.
Viñales made another bad start but finished ahead of three Yamaha
Despite achieving his first points, Viñales was not entirely satisfied. " The race was not bad, but I expected much more. We have to try to recover that feeling. I was missing a corner and we have to try to improve. Speed is good, and braking too. It is necessary to improve in points of the circuit where the time is done, "he commented.
Viñales managed to get directly into Q2 thanks to a fabulous time in the first free practice, which earned him to stay in the top ten of the combined for the rest of the weekend. In the classification Viñales only reached the tenth position, opening the fourth row of the grid.
But he made a bad start again. A characteristic problem of his time at Yamaha that has been transferred to Aprilia, as the front wheel was raised too much and it ran out of traction on the straight. Viñales went from tenth to seventeenth position in the first corners of the career.
"I feel that my potential on this bike can be very high, because it has more power and brakes even better. But at this point I still don't understand it well and I still have many laps to do. In two days it is difficult to find the key to the start. to point and understand all the reactions. In the tests I will try a very different motorcycle"continued Viñales.
Despite all the problems, he finished ahead of a good number of regular riders in the world championship, including three of the four Yamaha. Franco Morbidelli, Valentino Rossi and Andrea Dovizioso They were surpassed by Viñales, which is also true that he scored due to the falls of Iker Lecuona, Jorge Martín and Álex Rins, riders called to finish in front of him.
Viñales comments that " I had problems during the race with a full fuel tank. On the other hand, the good thing is to see that the bike has a good constant traction, which is very important. Another positive point is that the pace was good, I like it. It wasn't perfect, but it was pretty good. "We'll see what he learns in the tests.
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