Maverick Vinales’ ride to second in the MotoGP Qatar Grand Prix prior to a penalty has been hailed as “real” by K꧑TM motorsport boss Pit Beirer.

KTM has had a tough start ꧂to the 2025 campaign, with persistent vibration problems stunting its hopes of battling for regular podiums and race wins.

After 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:a difficult sprint in Qatar where the four KTM riders’ soft tyre gamble backfired, there was little hope of things improving for the full-length race l𓃲ast Sunday at Lusail.

But 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales, who qualified sixth and has impressed with his one-lap speed this year on his switch to the RC16, stunned when he too﷽k the lead on lap 11 of 22 and held that position until lap 16🃏.

Despite dropping behind ev💯entual winner Marc Marquez, Vinales was able to hold onto second comfortably and was just 1.8s adrift of the Ducati rider at the chequered flag.

A post-race tyre pressure penalty ultimat🤡ely dropp𒊎ed him to 14th.

In a behind-the-scenes video issued by MotoGP’s official website, a discussion between KTM management offered an insight into how the brand’s motor𓆉sport boss viewed Vinales’ race.

“The performance was real,” Beirer said.

“T✨he whole race, consistent. Not lucky, nothing [worke🔯d in our favour].”

Tech3 team boss Herve Poncharal added: “Marc Marquez was like this [head down]. He had๊ to give everything on the last two, three laps to ♉make a break. Bagnaia gave up.”

Vinales’ crew chief Manu Cazeaux is seen in the same video in discussion with his team after notification was given of🤪 the tyre pressure investigati🐻on.

“I wanted to do a little bit less [pressure] because the risk of being alone was small,” he said, referring to the calculation teams have to 🍃make on setting front tyre pressures based on how they think the race might play out. “But in the end we said, ‘Ok, let’s go’.”

Starting from sixth, KTM felt a top five was the absolute maximum on offer after its difficult sprint and would have set Vinales’ tyre pressure to cope with the expected g♈roup of riders it thought he would have ahead of him.

Poncharal told 168澳♔洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:ltxcn.top in an exclusive interview that Vinales let Marquez through in response to a warning on his dashboard about tyre pressures and was ultimately onlꦑy a couple of laps outside of the 60% distance threshold of running inside the 1.8 bar minimum.

The Tech3 team boss also noted that Ma✤rqu🌜ez pulling away like he did contributed to Vinales’ penalty.