“Introvert, shy” Maverick Vinales praised for finding “last piece of the jigsaw”

“I genuinely thought that the last pꦇiece of the jigsaw was not there"

Maverick Vinales, MotoGP race, Grand Prix of the Americas, 14 April
Maverick Vinales, MotoGP race, Grand Prix of the Americas, 14 April

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales has been praised for finding the confidence and bravery required to win a grand ꦏprix.

Vinales won for the first time in three years last weekend at the Circuit of the Americas to become the first MotoGP rider to experience vic💧tory for three manufacturers.

But after letting similar opportunities pass, causing s🍨ome in 💜the paddock to lose faith, he has been hailed for rediscovering the winning formula.

Nei🙈l Hodgson told TNT Sports: “He’s been in positions where he should have won. He’s had strong weekends.

“Maverick has always be🐷en on good bikes. A factory Yamaha r🃏ider, factory Suzuki…

“He ha🍃s had opportunities and he has under-delivered.

“We’ve been negative🧜 about him, and I hat💎e being negative about a rider.

“But so many times we’ve ꦫsaid ‘he has not quite delivered…’

“I genuinely thought that the last piece of the jigsa𝓀w was not there.

“It looks like, the way he’s riding now and the balance on his motorcycle, we’re going to see it m🔴ore often.

“Would you bet against him in Jerez? I ♋still need to see more from Maverick.

ꦡ“I’m 50-50. But you wouldn’t bet against him in Jere🧸z.”

Th🐬e past few years have not lived up to Vinales’ Yamaha heyday, where he ende🥃d two seasons third in the standings.

Three grand prix podiums last season cou🐠ld🦩 only yield an seventh place overall finish.

“He has beaten himself up,” Hodgson said.

“Not physically. Much worse, mentally.

“I ಞknow him well enough. You see him walk around the paddock in a dark period, when results aren’t there, and he’s under-performed.

“He is an intꦡrovert, he’s shy, he doesn’t g🌱ive anyone eye contact.

“Because he’s so talented, it’s 🌠worse! The hardꦦest bit is having the ability.

“Some people🗹 don’t have the ability - they are brave, good motorcycle racers…

“But he’s got it all. And now🌄 he’s using it to his best.”

Vinales added his COTA 𝓡victory with April𒆙ia to previous wins with Suzuki and Yamaha, as a result succeeding with three manufacturers where Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo failed.

But his COTA win - where he lost pole position♉, fell to 11th, then clambered back to the fron✃t - was no fluke.

His Aprilia has been labelled the fastest bike at all three rounds by Massimo Rivola, raisin♑g expectation for what Vinales might be able to do at Jerez, the fourth round next week.

He has a🧔lso w🌃on back-to-back sprint races at Portimao and Texas.

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