Maverick Vinales will head for the French Grand Prix at Le Mans next weekend with renewed confidence after making big steps towardꦚs✤ solving his braking weakness at the Jerez MotoGP test.

The Monster Yamaha rider felt that braking was the only area where he was losing time to team-mat🅘e Fabio Quartararo, who dominated the Spanish Grand Prix weekend until being struck by chronic arm-pump problems while leading the race.

"We look at any Yamaha data and try to take the best from any rider, so basi💦cally💞 with Fabio I was just losing on braking. Pretty similar to in 2019," Vinales explained.

"I was really go𓆏od in th🔯e other parts of the track but just on braking I lose everything. So we concentrated a lot on that today."

The Spaniard, who finished seventh in Sunday's race, set about finding a solution during a mammoth 101 laps, whic♈h is over four grand prix distances.

"I just needed to work a lot on the b🧔ike by myself, trying to ಞunderstand how to brake later," he said.

"But at the end of the day I just found a better balance on ꦉthe bike and s💮omehow I was much more precise in sector 1 and sector 3, which I needed to improve. Basically, we gained a lot of confidence in the front tyre… We improved quite a lot.

"Honestly, this is my best day on the bike and I will arrive at Le Mans with a very nꦕice feeling."

Vinales set the b🍷est lap of the test, a 1m 36.879s, late in the af🎀ternoon, putting him 0.034s quicker than Suzuki's Alex Rins.

"This morning was really good grip because with medium tyres I was able to do '37.1, with the base set-up, so perfect conditions," said the Qatar race winner. "But this afternoon changed quite a lo🅘t.

"I'm quite happy because at the end of the day the lap times were very fast, even if the conditions were very tricky because🌠 of the wind."

The only hiccup had been a small oil leak.

"I just lost some oil and so I decided to get😼 off the track as soon as I felt it, but no big problem. They fixed it and it was okay."

Team-mate Quartararo missed the test as he sought medica☂l advice regarding his arm pump issue.

Vinales is third in the world championship, and the top Yamaha ride♕r, heading to round 5 at Le Mans.