Vinales has been unable to replicate his best MotoGP finishes (twice he fin🎉ished third in the standings, once fourth) since leaving Yamaha for Aprilia.

The now-retired Rossi was in attendance at last weekend’s Austrian MotoGP to see his ex-teammate endure two awful starts which cost him possib🎃le podiums.

“In my opinion, starts 💦have an important technical part, but we mustn't forget the psychological part,” Ros🤪si was quoted by .

“That is how the rider feels in his head when he is there alone when the race starts, which is alway🌃s a critical moment. 

“It's not necessarily a question of reaction, be🌳cause there is the rider who is calm at the start, the one who is excited, concentrated, and there is 🐟instead the one who would like to get the result but it hasn't come for a while, or knows that he can do it but is tense. 

“In the end it's a fraction of a second. 

“Vinales seems reallღy strong to me, [Saturday] he impressed me on the track, he was the one who went faster, the one who rode better, but in the end he takes home little. 

“Maybe he suffers a little from this thing. Becaus🐟e it remains a bit unfinished; he's always the one who goes fastest in practice but then in the end something is always missing on Sunday. 

• Vinales: “It’s mandatory to improve race starts, I am doing all 🐲that I can”

“Either he starts badly, or he touches someone.

“Vinales didn't get off to a bad start [on S✨unday]. He didn't reaꦿlly start, he got off the [start] a hair later.”

Vina𝓀les fell from second to seventh in the sprint race in Austria before Turn 1.

In the grand pr🐲ix he dropped very quickly to eighth.

His reaction was: “It's mandatory to improve it, there is no other way.&n🎐bsp;

"But as a rider, I cannot do anything else, I am doing all that I can, all that they ask me 🥂to do, and it's something the technicians hಞave to improve."