Le Mans: Vinales: 'A track to be back at the top'
After leading three of the six days of official pre-season testing, few would have pre♕dicted it would take Maverick Vinales until round four to claim a MotoGP podium in 2019.
Nonetheless, having achieved the rostrum at one of his and Yamaha's worst circuits, Jerez, the Spaniard faces the more favourable challenge of this weekend's Le Mans ro🙈und with renewed optimism.
After leading three of the six days of official pre-season testing, few would have predicted it would take Mav꧑erick Vinales until round four to claim a MotoGP podium in 2019.
Nonetheless, having achieved the rostrum at one of his and Yamaha's worst circuits, Jerez, the Spaniard faces the more favourable challe🌠nge of this weekend's Le Mans round with renewed optimism.
Vinales ꩵtook his first MotoGP podium at the circuit with Suzuki in 2016, then won for Yamaha in 2017. However last year saw a subdued seve𒀰nth as he battled acceleration issues, while team-mate Valentino Rossi completed the podium.
“Getting a third place iꦡn Jerez was a good confidence bo🌼ost, for sure, so I'm feeling positive," Vinales said.
"🐷Le Mans is a circuit that I really like and it's also the track wh♍ere I scored some of the best results of my career. So, to me, that's a track to be back at the top.
"I really like going there. I just hope that the weather will help us a little because, if not, Le Mans is a really tough track. In Austin 🌠we were quite fast in the wet, so we have to see.
"I'm curious to see what we can do there.”
Vinales - taken o🐈ut by Franco Morbidelli in Argent♍ina - is sixth in the world championship, but already 40-points behind Honda's Marc Marquez and 31 from the top Yamaha of Rossi.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi co💧me and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
