Maverick Vinales says his KTM MotoGP adaptation has gotten “stuck”

Tech3 rider endured difficult first race on KTM

Maverick Vinales, Tech3 KTM, 2025 Thai MotoGP
Maverick Vinales, Tech3 KTM, 2025 Thai MotoGP
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168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales says he has gotten stuck in his adaptation to the KTM MotoGP bike after struggling to 14th in Saturday’s Thai Grand Prix sprint for Tech3.

Bot🎃h Tech3 riders - Vinales and Enea Bastianini - had a tough winter adjusting to the RC16, but Vinales appeared to make a breakthrough on the 🐼last day of testing.

Howeverᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ, he could only managed 18th in qualifying and pace enough to finish 18.984s off th♈e win on Saturday.

Asked what happened in qua💧lifying, Vinales said: “Oh, no, nothing. I need to learn the bওike more and go on the limit.

“Now I feel I’m a little bit stuck in the process, but it needs laps and trying to understand the bike more. It wil🌱l take time.

“Basically, also the rhythm was not fantastic either or else I co⛦uld have goꦗne up more in the race.

“It’s something I can see that the riders who are more experienced with the bike can override,♏ that now I’m stuck.

“So, I need to really undဣerstand and focus on the process, understand and keep learning.”

KTM managဣed to get two bikes into the top eight in the sprint with factory du✤o Pedro Acosta and Brad Binder.

Vinales b✅elieves all KTM riders are struggling in the same areas with the bike, but Acosta and Binder𓂃 have been able to “naturalise” them into their riding style technique.

“All th🍰e riders are struggling on the same points and the comments are very similar,” he added.

“Just, from my point of view, the guys who have more experience are more used to it and they have naturalised these things - like to go really sidew🌜ays on the brakes an๊d it comes natural for them.

“But for me it’s a little bit too extre🎶me and it’s so easy to make a big lateral slide.

“Maybe I just need to get used to it or we need to work to solve thi𒉰s problem.

“But the best thing I can do just now is to oveꦚrride these thin💖gs and try to be strong. So, this is what I’m going to do.”

Vinales’ team-mate Bastianini could do no more than 18th in the sprint, with the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Italian’s race time 30s slower than what h💞e achieved in 2024 when he won the Saturday race for Ducati.

Quotes provided by Crash MotoGP Editor Peter McLaren

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