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

The now-retired Rossi was in attend⛎ܫance 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 importꦬant technical part, but ꧃we mustn't forget the psychological part,” Rossi was quoted by .

“That is how the rider feels in his head when he is there a☂lone when the race starts, which is always a critical ༒moment. 

“It's not necessarily a question of reacti🦹on, 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 come for a while, or kn🃏ows 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 one 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 somethin﷽g is🍒 always missing on Sunday. 

• Vinales: “It’s mandatory to improve race starts,🌟 I am doing all th🐠at I can”

“Either he starts badly, or he touches someone.

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

Vinales fell 𝕴from second🔯 to seventh in the sprint race in Austria before Turn 1.

In the grand pr๊ix he dropped very quickly to eighth.

His reaction was: “It's mandatory to improve 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 something the technicians have to improv🌟e."