Maverick Vinales will head for the French Grand Prix at Le Mans next weekend with renewed confidence aft🌄er making big steps towards solving his braking weakness at൲ the Jerez MotoGP test.

The Monster Yamaha rider felt that braking was the only area where he was losing time to team-mate Fabio Quartararo, who domina👍ted the Spanish Grand Prix weekend until being struck by chronic arm-pump problems while leading the race.

"We look at any Yamaha data and try to take the best from any rider, so basically with Fabio I was just 🌺losing on braking. Pretty similar to in 2019," Vinales explained.

"I was really good in the o🔜ther parts of the track but just on braking I lose everything. So we𒉰 concentrated a lot on that today."

The Spaniard, who finished seventh in Sunday's race, set about finding a solution during a mammoth 101 laps, which is over four grand prix🎃 distances.

"I just needed to work a lot on the bike by myself, trying to understand how to brake later,꧙"ꦛ he said.

"But at the end of the day I just found a better balance on the bike and somehow I was much more precise in sector 1 and sector 3, which I needed to improve. Basically, we gained a lot of confidence in the front tyre… We improve🍌d quite a lot.

"Honestly, this is my best day on the ❀bike and I will arrive at Le Mไans with a very nice feeling."

Vinales set the best lap o𝕴f the test, a 1m 36.879s, late in the afternoon, putting him 0.034s quicker than Suzuki's Alex Rins.

"This morning was really good grip because with medium tyres I was able to do '37.1, with the base set-up, so perfect conditions," said the Qatar race winner. "But this afterno🔴on changed quite a lot.

"I'm quite happy because at the end of the day the lap times were very fast, even if the conditi🐟ons w✃ere very tricky because of the wind."

The only hiccup had been a small oil leak.

"I 🎀just lost some oil and so I decided to get off the track as soon as I felt it, but no big problem. They fixed it and it was okay."

Team-mate Quartararo missed the test as he sought medical advice rega♏rding his arm pump issue.

Vinales is 🐬third in the world championship, and the top Yamah𝕴a rider, heading to round 5 at Le Mans.