Maverick Vinales says riding the KTM has made him “understand♒ why it was so complicated ꦜfor me to overtake” on his previous MotoGP bikes.

The 10-time MotoGP race winner joined KTM with the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Tech3 team at t🎀he start of the 2025 season🍸, having previously ridden Aprilia, Yamaha and Suzuki bikes.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales has largely been KTM’s top rider in what has 🐽b💜een a tough campaign for the Austrian marque, with the Spaniard finishing second on the road in the Qatar Grand Prix before a tyre pressure penalty demoted him.

From the moment he jumped on the KTM, Vinales noted that he 𝕴felt like he had a bike he could fight with due to the bike’s powerful engine.

In an exclusive interview with mahbx.com, Vinaܫles reveals that the RC16 has made it clear to him why “it was so complicated” for him to overtake on his previous bikes.

“Basically, I thought ‘ok, now I understand w🔯hy it was so complicated for me to overtake’,” he ♕said when asked if riding the KTM made him question how he won on slower bikes.

“Because for me now it’s easy to overtak✤e; I can overtake wherever I like.

“Especiall൩y if I’m fast I can overtake in the next corner if I want.

“But, with the Yamaha or Aprilia it was so hard because always I was likeꦏ four, five bikes behind.

“Yeah, I was tꦏrying it 𒁃and I would end up in the gravel! Now it’s quite easy, to be honest.

“That’s been the thing I’ve understood on the KTM - thওis is different to battle with.”

Aprilia experience helping Maverick Vinales adapt to KTM

Despite a t꧟ricky pre-season phase on the new KTM, Vinales has been able to fꦺind a good base set-up on the RC16 that the marque’s other riders have since begun to follow.

It’s in contrast to when Vinales joinꦿed Aprilia late in the 2021 season following his acrimonious split from Yamaha.

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Adapting to the V4 Aprilia having only ever ridden inline-four bikes to that point took Vinales time,⭕ with his first podium not co💮ming until his 16th race on the RS-GP.

Asked if this experience has he♛lped him approach the KTM challenge differently, he said: “The experience is a plus always in life.

“And obviously when I jumped onto the Aprilia, thaꦛt was massive.

“That was something I never expected, because I remember in Misano… the Yamaha was very fast at 🌞Misano.

“I did many pole positi🉐ons, winning races, being on the podium.

“And I never felt not even one bump on this track [on t🌌he Yamaha]. When I jumped onto the Aprilia, I feꦦlt every single bump on the track, I said ‘maybe they changed the track or something’.

“൲It was a different track! So, this wꦅas a nice experience and I understood really well with the KTM. For me, it was amazing.

“I went 🔯to sleep [thinkiꦦng] ‘if Misano is bumpy, I don’t know what the bumpy tracks will be like’ because it was so shocking for me.

“But this experience helped me a💜 lot in KTM to understand that there is a process.

“O💯f course you already want to be from the first race fighting at the front. But there is a process that you cannot jump.

“You need to do it. If 🉐it’s quicker or not, it de🅺pends on the situation. There is an adaptation to the bike, to the engine.

“For example, I passed from cable gas [throttle connection] to electron༺ic gas. You need to adapt.”