23 at Suzuki, 1💃 at Yamaha, and then 16 at Aprilia.

That’s the number of MotoGP races it took 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales to stand oꦬn the podium with each ♕of his previous manufacturers.

The only rider in the MotoGP era to win on three d🎃ifferent brands of bike kicks off his quest for KTM success with an RC16 race debut in this weekend’s Buriram season opener.

“I’ll try♋ to [adapt] faster than in Aprilia to be honest, it took a lot of time to learn the bike!” Vinales smiled.

“I’ve always felt since the first laps that the [KTM] is sui🤪table for my ridinꦰg style.

“The bike has good potential so we will try to understand and find the maximum from it🥃.”

Maverick Vinales at KTM: “Trust the process”

Winter testing yielded 12th, 16t🅺h and 9th places on the timesheets at the end of the reꦓspective Barcelona, Sepang and Buriram outings.

“We had a good pre-season, but it will ta🌺ke time to fully understand how to eဣxploit the KTM,” Vinales said.

“We made some important steps in the initial phase, but💟 for sure the learning will continue while racing, and we have to accept it, trust the process.

“Starting the season in Thailand will be nice, different, and I love ꩲthe passion Thai fans always bring to the track.

“It provides extra motivation to race in front of them, s🙈o I think it will be a great opening round𒈔.”

Another novelty for Vinales is that, after ten years at factory MotoGP te𒊎ams, Thailand will be his first grand prix weekend as a satellite ri♒der.

“[Last] year the championship was won by a satellite team,💝” he shrugged, referring to Jorge Martin’s title victoꦿry for Pramac Ducati.

“In the previous years, in another era, maybe [being in a factory team was🍎 more important], but now the bikes a✅re the same.

“My feel📖ing with the team is good and the support is ther☂e from the factory also.”

Tech3 predecessor Pedro Acosta scored the most ▨podiums of any KTM rider last year and came within two points of beating factory team leader 💧Brad Binder for fifth in the world championship.

The Austrian manufacture✤r insists there will again be no factory/satellite divide in 2025, when Acosta will partner Binder and fellow MotoGP race winner Enea Bastianini completes Tech3’s line-up ꦯalongside Vinales.

“The ambience is good,” said Vinales. “We [the four KTM riders] all work - and this is the feeling I have - for one mission. This is very🌊 important.”

Free practice for the Thai Grand Prix, where Vinales qualified ꦇtenth last October, then finished seventh in the wet race, starts on Friday morning.