Maverick Vinales says he is “grateful” for the feedback he ha꧙s been getting about how to be a better KTM MotoGP rider 𝕴from his “idol” Dani Pedrosa.

Ten-time premier class grand prix winner Vinales joins the Tech3 sq🅺uad for the 2025 season as a factory KTM rider, following three and a h♓alf years with Aprilia.

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KTM’s current test team is one of t✱he strongest in the paddock, with three-time MotoGP championship runner-up Pedrosa and multiple 💟podium finisher Pol Espargaro at the helm.

Pedrosa’s influence at KTM has been particularly big in recent years, with Vinales revealing following 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:the brand’s 2025 launch event just how helpful he has been to him already.

“It’s not only that he tells me, I wish for him to tell me,” Viღnales said of the advice Pedrosa gives him.

“I’m open to listen ♌to Dani and understand how I can improve also my riding style and my way to race.

“I think every year yꦫou have to learn, and having on your side Dani Pedrosa, who has been one of my idols since I was a kid, I’m really grateful for that because ꦫI can learn a lot and I can understand where I can improve myself, or maybe how I can read the races.

“And this is very important. To be honest, maybe from the 𝕴last nine years, it’s the first year I don’t have to develop a bike.

“So, that’s a huge change. I c⛦an concentr♎ate on myself, on the setting. I remember last year I didn’t even have three laps to do work on the setting.

“So, this year I have plenty of laps 🦹to do my setting. So, I wish this can make a big difference to go to the next level.”

Asked wไhat advice he had been given already, Vinales replied: “Some, yes. That’s why I was training a lot because I’m trying to incorporate that into my riding style.

“So, he gave me a𝐆 few [pieces of ad🍷vice] and I’m happy for that.”

KTM confirmed that Pedrosa and Espargaro are at Sepang this week for the shakedo🐻wn ahead of the first official pre-season test of the ꦕyear on 5-7 February.

The ongoing insolvency proceedings at KTM had led to specul🐲ation about KTM cutting Pedrosa from its test rider roster, but this doesn’t appear to be the case for now.