If Aprilia can smile for the double top5 achieved in qualifying (5th) and in the race (4th) with Aleix Espargarò, the same cannot be done for the performance of Maverick Vinales, appeared in difficulty and far from his teammate on the Lusail track. The former Yamaha rider, who with the Iwata team had won in Qatar in 2021, qualified only in the seventh row and from the 19th position of the starting grid managed to take home a measly twelfth place (also favored by the six retirements of drivers who preceded him). Vinales has closed at 23 ″ from the winner Enea Bastianini (Ducati Gresini) and at 21 ″ from his box mate Aleix Espargarò.
In the statements at the end of the race, the Spaniard did not look for excuses: “The ride didn’t go as planned, because we expected to be up front. Or, at least, these were my expectations, because I felt good. But once we got here, we found ourselves faced with another reality. I didn’t feel good with the bike, I try to understand it but it’s very complicated “. The difficulties for Vinales are more localized in the corners and with the feeling with the front.
“My feeling is the same as in the last 2021 races with Aprilia, but I felt better during the tests“, Continued the centaur of the Noale house, admitting: “I don’t know why, but already from the first free practice I started lose the front at almost every corner“. What worries Vinales is having no idea how to fix things in the short term: “The sensations are very clear, but I don’t know which way to take. I suppose the DNA of this bike forces you to do things differently ”.
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