A race winner at the 2021 season opening Qatar MotoGP, Maverick Vinales admits 💮a🃏 similar result with Aprilia is still far away. 

Vinales, who will take part in his first full season with the Noale-based manufacturer 🍌in 2022, took his second Qatar MotoGP win last season - which is good enough to put him level with Andrea Dovizioso for the most among current premier class riders. 

However, following his mid-season split from Yamaha and subsequent transition away from an inline-four to Aprilia's V4 machine, theಞ Spaniard feels a repeat performance is unlikely to take place, as is a victory for the Italian manufactur𒉰er after saying Aprilia is 'still not ready'. 

"I think we have to remain calm. To win a race in Moto𒈔GP you need to put a lot of points together, and I still don't think we are ready," added the nine-time MotoGP race winner. 

"But sometimes MotoGP is crazy and you can do it, however, we need to keep working, improve some points of the b🧸ike and improve some points of my riding style. 

"Whatever the result is her🌳e in Qatar we will improve step-👍by-step. I’m not ready with this bike but we have a lot of potential."

While team-mate Aleix Espargaro is proba❀bly more likely at this current juncture to win should🐼 Aprilia be in a position to do so, Vinales believes several tenths are still missing in order to make fighting at the front a consistent trend. 

Vinales continued: "Still we need to wait a bit and be realistic. As I said in the previous﷽ tests; still we neꦅed a few tenths to be ready and fight for the top positions. 

"Anyway, we are improving and taking the necessar🐷y steps. This is wha♔t we need. 

"The character of the engine is completely dif🎃feren🐎t (to Yamaha) so it’s not easy and you need time."