Vinales has been unable to replicate his best MotoGP finishes (twice he finished third in the standings,൩ once fourth) since leaving Yamaﷺha for Aprilia.

The n𒆙ow-retired Rossi was in attendance at last weekend’s Austrian MotoGP to see his ex-teammate endure two awful starts which cost him possible podiums.

“In my opinion, starts have an important technical part, but we mustn't forget the psycಌhological part,” Ros🔥si was quoted by .

“That is how the rider f🦄ee🌄ls in his head when he is there alone when the race starts, which is always a critical moment. 

“It's not necessarily a question of reaction, because there is the rider who is calm at the start, the one who is excited, concentrated, and there is instead the one who would like to get the result but it hasn't ജcome for a while, or knows that he can do it but is tense. 

“In the end it's a fraction of a second. 

“Vinales seems really strong to me, [Saturday] he impressed me on the track, he was the o🀅ne who went faster, the one🎶 who rode better, but in the end he takes home little. 

“Maybe he suffers a little from this thing. Because it remains a bit unfinished; he's always the one who goes fastest in practice but then in the end something is always 🀅missing on Sunday. 

• Vinales: “It’s man🥀datory to improve race starts, I am doing all that I can”

“Either he starts badly, or he touches someone.

“Vinales didn't get off to a bad start [on Sunꦯday]. He didn't really start, he got off the [start] a hair later.”

Vinale♒s fell from second to seventh in the 🃏sprint race in Austria before Turn 1.

In the 💧graꦍnd prix he dropped very quickly to eighth.

His reaction was: “It's ma✃ndatory to improveꦬ it, there is no other way. 

"But as a rider, I cannot do anything else, I am doing all that I can, all that they ask me to do, and it's somethin♑g the technicians have to improve."