Maverick Vinales outlines criteria for “successful” Sepang MotoGP test

Three days of adapting to KTM in M🧸alaysia coming up for Vinales

Maverick Vinales
Maverick Vinales

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales says a “successful” Sepang pre-season MotoGP test🌃 on the KTM will see him “understand the limiꦑt 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, follow🐼ing three and a half year with Aprilia’s works team.

While enjoꦓying a positive first test on the RC16 last November in Barcelona, Vinales says he isn’t coming to Sepa𝐆ng this week with any performance goals in mind.

“🐟I will be busy with myself, to be ౠhonest,” he said.

“It🍌’s a lot of work to do, adapting to a new bike.

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

“For me, a suc💯cessful test will be to understand the limit of the bike, to understand what happens when I’m on a time attack, what ha⭕ppens in race mode, what happens when I try to follow someone.

“To𒁃 solve all these questions will be a key for me to have a successful tes🌱t.

“Ob🦂viously I don’t know the bike enough to say ‘thi🐬s is better, this is not better’.

“You can feel it and you can tell🍬. But my target is to answer all these questions I ha꧙ve on my mind.”

Satellite hope for Maverick Vinales in 2025 MotoGP

Thisܫ year is Vinales’ first in MotoGP riding for a satellite squad, albeit one that is more closely aligned with the factory - with all four KTMs running a unified livღery in 2025.

With Pramac winnin🍒g the championship 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 miss𒐪ion, and this is very important.

“Last yea💙r the championship was💙 decided by a satellite team, so I don’t think right now it’s a question.

“Maybe in the previous years, yes, in ꧙another era. But now the bikes are fully eq🌳ual, all the same.

“The feeling with the team is good✤ and positiveꦛ, so probably this will work really good.

“And this is the most import♍ant thing 🍒right now, to keep it simple and work in a good way.

“At the e💖nd, the support is t✤here from 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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