Maverick Vinalܫes says he is not anticipating a return of the heat issues that caused problems for Aprilia riders last year during MotoGP’s flyaway races this weekend in Indonesia.

This weekend’s Indonesian Grand Prix marks the first of five overseas rounds in six weeks as the 2024🍬 season reaches its climax.

In that time, MotoGP will race at sweltering tracওks like Mandalika, Buriram and Sep💟ang.

Last year, the Aprilia bikes encountered majo🌺r 🐭heat issues which caused physical problems for its riders and is something it doesn’t appear to have been able to get on top of yet.

While conditions will be hot this weekend, Vinales says the layout of the Mandalika track shouldn’꧋t see a return of these issu𒊎es.

“To be honest, in this track - especially Mandalika - the temper🎶ature is not very demandin✱g on the bike because you are all the time leaning,” he explained on Thursday.

“💦So, you don’t spend most of the time on the bike, like in Thailand where there are long straig꧃hts.

“Her🐠e you don’t have that, so probably here we will not suffer on the tempe🐼rature. So, this is really good.”

Aprilia has ꦍendured a tough time since the summer break, with its form seemingly dropping further away from that of Ducati’s in recent rounds.

After terrible Aragon and San Marino GPs, there was a bit of improvement last weekend at the Emilia Romagna GP as Vinales ꦗfinished sixth and team-mate Aleix Espꦯargaro was eighth.

Vinales - who was on the podium last year at Mandalika - believes Aprilia has “re🎶covered the speed” it was missing on𓂃 the RS-GP and is confident of continuing that this weekend.

“We are motivated 🐈and confident seeing the result of Misano, seeing we recovered the 💞speed, we made an improvement,” he said.

“So♑, we are really optimistic for the next weekඣends.

“Of course, I arrive here with a lot ofꦑ motiඣvation.

“I don’t expect anything at the moment because🤡 I✅ need to see how the bike is going.

“But I arrive with a lot of enthusiasm, because I think in Misano we recovered the speed, which is very importa🦂nt.

“And noꦛw we can make here a continuation of tha♔t speed.”