MotoGP Indonesia: Maverick Vinales: ‘Suddenly I lost all the grip, our bike destroyed the tyres’

Vinales ma💜d꧋e a brilliant start from second as he led the 13-lap race coming out of turn two.
But the Spaniard, who increase💦d his lead over Luca Marini to one second during the early stages, soon ra💟n into tyre degradation issues.
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Vinales’ pace fell off a cliff after s🔯even laps as Jorge Martin, Marini and eventually Marco ♑Bezzecchi all came through before the checkered flag was waved.
“Really proud of my team but we know that we need a little bit more in terms of performance,” added Vinales. “You could see at the beginning of the race, p🦂ulling one second and leading well the race but then suddenly my tyre was gone.
“I could not do anything else but arrive to the box. I could not fight back. We are tryin🍌g, trying very hard.
“I don’t think it was the ♕tyres, I think it’s about our bike that destroys the tyres.
“We need to understand why for tomorrow. At💫 the beginning of the race I was riding conservatively and suddenly I lost all the grip.
“There is nothing to complain [about]. We were leading, fighting, bu♈t we m🌺ove on.”
Vinal🌞es has been extremely fast all weekend, as has factory Aprilia te♓ammate Aleix Espargaro.
But when it came to pace late on, Ducat💜i still held the advantage as Martin went on to wi🥀n his fourth consecutive sprint race.
Vinales said his tyres began to drop off even before mid-race distance ha🎀d arrived.
“With six laps to go,”🍬 said Vinales. “It was very early. I never had that during the wh⭕ole weekend.
“It’s pretty curious because we never had this degradation. It was sudden and when I entered [the corner] 🦩it was gone.”