Maverick Vinales says key changes to his r🐷iding style along with Monster Yamaha’s grip fixes were vital for his charge to a 🌺first pole position since the 2019 opening round.

The factory Yamaha rider saw off surprise package Pol Espargaro on the Red Bull KTM to take his f🧸irst pole since the Qatar round having demonstrated impressive practice pace🎉 after topping Friday’s combined times.

Vinales has often been a rider to suffer the most when track conditions turn hot and slippery, as proved the case at Misano, but instead he charged to top spot𓆉 with relatively few issues in qualifying.

The Spaniard has put this turnaround down to improvements from Yamaha on its previous traction a𒆙nd grip troubles while he’s also tweaked his riding style to further exploit the strong points of his YZR-M1.

“I am really happy because from Friday I fe🐬lt really good and somehow I found a better fไeeling than I had at the test so I can hit very good lap times even with very used tyres,” Vinales said. “I am excited for tomorrow and I think we have approached the weekend in a really good way.

“We ar൩e doing good steps and I think we have improved our riding style a lot on the bike, that is the improvement on track.

“Somehow even in slippery co♋nditions we have created a good corner speed and I think that is why we are very fast. We will try to push from the first lap and then we will see. But we are ready to fight until the end, the important objective is to fight for the victory.

“I worked very hard with my father at home trying to be better on the bike because the bike is the same so I needed to improve to make a next step if I wanted to be 🎶at the front. I worked very hard at home trying to work on weight balance and to see what I needed to be fast.

“Somehow it worked so I am really happyꦍ with all the hard work that we did as we spent a lot of days on the bike so I was very happy already൩ from FP1 as I saw an improvement from my second lap so I was very, very happy.”

Vinales last started 🎃from the front row in Germany, which he converted into a second place podium behind winner Marc Marquez, while in his previous Moto⛦GP race win at Assen he also started from the front row in second place.

But from his previous pole position in Qatar Vinales struggled in the race 🐷and finished a lowly seventh place.