A race winner atꦬ the 2021 season opening Qatar MotoGP, Maverick Vinales admits a similar result with Aprilia is still far away. 

Vinales, who will take part in his first full season with the Noale-based manufacturer in 2022, 🍸took his second Qatar MotoGP win last season - which is good enough to put him level with Andrea Dovizioso for the most among current premier class riders. 

However, following his mid-season split from Yamaha and subsequent transition away from an inline-four to Aprilia's V4 machine, the Spaniard feels a repeat performance is unlikely to take place, as is a victo🐓ry for the Italian manufacturer after saying Aprilia is 'still not ready'. 

"I think we have to remain calm. To win a race in MotoGP you need to put a lot of points together, and I still don't think we are ready," a🏅dded the nine-time MotoGP ra🦂ce winner. 

"But ꦺsometimes MotoGP is crazy and you can do it, however, we need to keep working, improve some points of the bike and improve sওome points of my riding style. 

"What🧸ever the result is here in Qatar we will improve step-by-step. I’m not ready with this bike but we have a lot of potential."

While team-mate Aleix Espargaro is probably more👍 l💛ikely at this current juncture to win should Aprilia be in a position to do so, Vinales believes several tenths are still missing in order to make fighting at the front a consistent trend. 

Vinales continued: "Still we neeღd to wait a bit and be realistic. As I said▨ in the previous tests; still we need a few tenths to be ready and fight for the top positions. 

"Anyway, we are improving and taking the ♔necessary steps. This is what weꦦ need. 

"The char𒀰acter of the engine is completely different (to Yamaha)💮 so it’s not easy and you need time."