Maverick Vinales says he is “grateful” for the feedback he has been getting about how to be a better KTM MotoGP rider fr🐓om his “idol”✱ Dani Pedrosa.

Ten-time premier class grand prix winner Vinales joins the Tech3 s🌞quad for the 2025 season as a factory KTM rider, following three and a half years with Aprilia.

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KTM’s current test team is one of the strongest in the paddock, with three-time Mo𒈔toGP championship runner-up Pedrosa and multiple podium finisher Pol Espargaro at the helm.

Pedrosa’s influence at KTM has been particularly big in recent years, with Vinales revealing following 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:the brand’s 2025 launch event just how helpful he has been to him already.

“It’s not only that he tells💧 me, I wish fo🥂r him to tell me,” Vinales said of the advice Pedrosa gives him.

“🎉I’m open to listen to Dani and understand how I can improve also my riding style and my way to ℱrace.

“I think every year you have to lea✱rn, and having on your side Dani Pedrosa, who has been one of my idols since I was a kid, I’m really grateful for that becau🔴se I can learn a lot and I can understand where I can improve myself, or maybe how I can read the races.

“And this is very important. To be honest, maybe from the last nine years, it’🐠s the first year I don’t have to develop a bik𒊎e.

“So, that’s a h🐼uge change. I can concentrate on myself, on th𒆙e setting. I remember last year I didn’t even have three laps to do work on the setting.

“So, this year I have plen🌃ty of laps tไo do my setting. So, I wish this can make a big difference to go to the next level.”

Asked what advice he had been given already, Vinales replied: “Some, yes. That’s why I was training a lot ༺because I’m trying to incorporate that into my riding style.

“So, he gave me a few [p✨ieces of advice] and I’m happy for that.”

KTM confirmed that Pedrosa 𝓀and Espargaro are at Sepang this week for the shakedown ahead of the first official pre-season test of the year on 5-7 February.

The ongoing insolvency proceedings at KTM had led to speculation about KTM cutting Pedrosa fro𓆉m its test rider roster, but this doesn’t appear to be the case for now.