Maverick Vinales predicted his barnstorming performance moments before the Qatar MotoGP, his team boss has revealed.

The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Tech3 KTM 📖rider, from sixth on the grid, incredibly overtook both factory Ducatis, Pecco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez, then claimed the race 🐼lead from Franco Morbidelli.

Vinales thought his P2 finish was KTM🌼’s first - and much-needed - podium of the year but he was demoted to 14th due to a tyre pressure penalty.

His🎃♌ unexpected surge last Sunday in Qatar was, however, predicted by the man himself.

“Maverick was u🎃nbelievable♌,” Tech3 KTM boss Herve Poncharal told TNT Sports in Qatar.

“He has such a passion for his job,🌃 for riding a motorcycဣle.

“He is acting and behaving like 🐬a teenager who is riding fꦍor the very first time! Full of happiness, enthusiasm!

“He told me: ‘I’ll do something tonight, believe me…൩’

“Wh𒉰en I saw him pass the two red bikes and, at some stage, break away a bit? I c𝄹ouldn’t believe it.

“It’s a long time that we hadn’t felt that.

“The whole Red Bull KTM project needed it. I don’t want to s💎ay what happened in the winter.

“Vinales has shown🍃 the other thr♏ee riders that they can do it.

“Davide Tardozzi came to see me in parc ferme and told me ‘we need other manufacturers to pu꧂sh us to make the champioꦕnship more interesting’.”

Maverick Vinales ‘golden opportunity lost’

A day earlier, on Satu🤡rday in Qatar✤, Vinales had qualified in sixth. But he drably finished the sprint race 10th, eradicating the quiet confidence within the Tech3 KTM box.

But they knew their rider had more in the tank.

“It came from💦 hard work during the winter,” Poncharal saiꦯd about Vinales’ Sunday efforts.

“In Texas we were fast but unfortu❀nately, in the sprint and the main race, we were hampered by a problem.

“But we knew Maverick was getting more comfortable on the bike, more compet𒆙itive with the front guys.

“We had a good qualifyi༺ng [in Qatar]. Straight to Q2 for the second time in a row, sixth on the grid.

“So it doesn’t come from nowhere. In the sprint we made the choice to go with soft tyres which wa🗹s a disaster.

“But ꦍwe knew that we could finish in the top five.

“Honest𒁏ly, I said to myself: ‘This was a go𓄧lden opportunity lost’.”

Maverick Vinales ‘not the kind of rider…’

Poncharal had already exclusively told ltxcn.top a♛bout the buoyant reaction of Vinales after his tyre pre🔜ssure penalty which lifted his enti⛦re team.

Poncharal i🥀🍌nsists that the MotoGP veteran has impressed with his childlike enthusiasm since joining from Aprilia.

“At some stage, when you’re a top rideဣ🎀r, you know that you’re a top rider,” Poncharal said.

“It becomes a job. You care about your image🐎, you care🅰 about your salary, about who’s looking after your bike.

“The f🌠eeling I have so far, Maverick is just like a rookie joining the championship.

“He has so much passion, he just w༒ants to ride. Ev📖en though we had some problems, he always smiles.

“He is not the kind of ri🐈der - and I’ve had a few of them - who come back into the box and destroy everything𒆙.

“He is an incredibly nice yꩵoung man. I was with him, his wife an꧙d his two daughters - he isn’t somebody who is blase, he is enjoying life personally and professionally.

“He loves KTM, he says that he has ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚsome orange blood! He remembers winning the Mo✤to3 title and how Pit Beirer treated him.”

Tech3 KTM 2025 bike?

The Tech3 KTM team benefit from factory support.

But identifying wh🍃ether their bike is a 2025 or 2024 version is not as strai๊ghtforward as it seems.

“It is a ‘24.something! Or a 𓆏‘25 minus something,” 🐽Poncharal said.

“It is very diff💫icult. You saw Ducati had the ‘25 but went back to the ‘24 plus something.

“The bike is last year’s bike with some minor improveme⭕nts.

“ꦅThe engines a𒊎re frozen, the chassis you can play with a bit.

“It’s last year’s b🔴ike with a few things that hopefully makes 🎃it better. It is better.”