Maverick Vinales outlines criteria for “successful” Sepang MotoGP test

Three days of adaptin😼g to KTM in Malaysia coming🔥 up for Vinales

Maverick Vinales
Maverick Vinales

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Maverick Vinales says a “successful” Sepang pre-season MotoGP test on the 🦋KT🌸M will see him “understand the limit of the bike” rather than anything performance-related.

The 10-time grand prix winner has signed for KTM to race for the Tech3 satellite squad in 2025💃, following three and a half year with Aprilia’s works team.

While enjoying a positive firs♌t test on the RC16 last Novembe🍌r in Barcelona, Vinales says he isn’t coming to Sepang this week with any performance goals in mind.

“I will be busy with myself, to𒊎 be honest,” he said.

“I♒t’s a lot of work to do, adapting to a new bike.

“🗹It’s always interesting, so I want to e🀅njoy a lot the process of adapting. We’ll see, but very curious to see the feeling on a different track like Sepang.

“For me, a successful test will be to understand the limit of the bike, to understand what happens when I’m onꦛ a time attack, what happens in race mode, what happens when I try to follow someone.

“To solve all these questions will be a key forඣ me to have a successful test.

“Obviously I don’t know the bike en🥂ough to say ‘this is better, this is not better’.

“You can feel it and you can tell.ꩲ But my target is to answer all these questions I have on my mind.”

Satellite hope for Maverick Vinales in 2025 MotoGP

This year is Vinales’ first in MotoGP rid♌ing for a satellite squad, albeit one that is more closely aligned with the factory - with all four KTMs running a unified livery in 2025.

With Pramac winning the champions🎃hip last year with Jorge Martin, Vinales doesn’t see moving to a satellite team as being a negative.

“I think the ambience is good,” he added.

“We all work - and this is the feeling I have -🍸 for one mission, and this is very important.

“Last year the champio🤡nship was decided by a satellite team, so I🦩 don’t think right now it’s a question.

“Maybe in the previous years, ye🌜s, in another era. But now the bikes a♏re fully equal, all the same.

“The feel꧑ing with the t✨eam is good and positive, so probably this will work really good.

“And this is the most important thing rig🅷ht now, to k✃eep it simple and work in a good way.

“At the end, the support is there frౠom the factory also. Technically, it looks like that, but when I go inside it doesn’t look like this.”

Quotes provided by Crash MotoGP Editor Peter McLaren 

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