Maverick Vina🍨les will continue with a stiffer set-up on his Movistar Yamaha during Friday practice in Argentina, as he prepares to try and challenge for a repeat of last 🤡year's victory.

After four months of winter testing, it was only on the eve of the s♔eason-opening Qatar race that Vinales re-discovered c🃏onfidence and feeling with the M1 for more than a single fast lap.

It wasn't enough to battle for victory at Losail, other areas of the bike such as acceleration needing further refinement for the new set-up, but Vinales was able to climb from 15th to 6th,𝓀 only 3.8s from race winner Andrea Dovizioso.

"The feeling came in FP4," Vinal⛎es confirmed in Argentina on Thursday.

"I went harder on the springs, because I brake quite late. I felt good with that. We will see, we have to continue trying. But what I felt is that durᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚing all the tests, I never had the same confidence and enough confidence as I had during in the race.

"So we have to keep continue going practice by prac🍒tice, trying to find the set-up I feel more comfortable with. But anyway, Argentina is a good track, I always have positive feelings when I arrive he💝re, so I can't wait to start.

"I will try to be strong and try to at least be at the same level as last year, which should be good to try to fight for the win. Tyre choice is going to be very, very important, we have to be🙈 intelligent, and we have to go in a good wa𓆉y.

"With the feeᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚling I had i🎃n the Qatar race, I am much more confident."

That confidence e✤xtends to the possibility of rain; the Achilles' heel of last year's factory Yamaha.

"My forecast says it will stay sunny on Sunday. But anyway, if it rains, we have to keep working, keep 🙈focused, I think this year the bike is going to be mu﷽ch better in the rain.

"Alre💦ady the firs🌺t feeling on the bike [in the rain] was good in Malaysia, so I think in the rain we can be strong."