Maverick Vinales: I have the feeling this year will be special
Maverick൩ Vinales 🍸heads for Le Mans: “I have the feeling this year will be special because of the level we have reached and the way I feel on the RS-GP24"
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales and Aprilia are out to prove that the disappointing Jerez MotoGP weekend was just a blip - the Spaniard headin🃏g to Le Mans believing it will be🌳 “one of the tracks where we will be strongest”.
After three victories in the four rac𓆏es before Jerez, including a perfect COTA double, Vinales and team-mate Aleix Espargaro were left 11th and 12th on the grid by a wet qualifying.
Vinales was briefly into a podium place in the Sprint before joining a long list of fallers on damp ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚpatches, then struggled to ninth in the Grand Prix.
But at the Monday test, a fault was found with his Sunday bike, which he had switched to afꦍter the Sprint fall, an൲d he finished in second place.
The #12 counts Le Mans as one of his favourite tracks, having claimed his first💎 Grand Prix victory at the venue as a 125cc rider in 2011.
That was followed by a Moto3 win in 2013 and a MotoGP🥂 victory (for ꦓYamaha) in 2017.
𓆉“Le Mans is a track where I’ve always felt competitive,” said Vinales, whose 2023 French GP hopes ended in an early tangle with Francesco Bagnaia.
“I have the feeling that this year will be spe🧸cial because of the level we have reached and because of the way I feel on the RS-GP24.
“I think Le Mans will be one of the tracks where we will be strꦉongest. I’m arriving focused and motivated.
“The atmosphere in France is fantastic and so is the🍌 circuit. I can’t wait to see the Aprilia fans in the stands!”
Vinales is now fifth in the world championship, while team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro has slipped♏ to 8th after his Qatar Sprint heroics.
Espargaro, who says he wiไll decide his MotoGP future over the next few rounds, stood on the Le Mans podium for Aprilia in 2022.
“I’m happy to be going to Le Mans, a legendary circuit where braking is fundamental,” Espargaro said. “The weather is always complicated, so it will be a challenge from that per😼spective.
“It’s a track that I like, where I finished on the podium two ye🥂ars ago and in P8 and P5 last year. I can’t wait to get there and to begin reaping the results we deserve.”
Aprilia is the only MotoGP factory yet to offici♑ally confirm any ride🌠rs for 2025.
Peter has been in the paddock fo♎r 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuk൩i exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
