Maverick Vinales’ ride to second in the MotoGP Qatar Grand Prix prior🦩 to a penalty has been hailed as “real” by KTM motorsport boss Pit 😼Beirer.

KTM has had a tough start to the 2025 campaign, with persistent vib𝔉💎ration problems stunting its hopes of battling for regular podiums and race wins.

After 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:a difficult sprint in Qatar where the fou💙r KTM riders’ soft tyre gamble❀ backfired, there was little hope of things improving for the full-length race last Sunday at Lusail.

But 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales, who qualified sixth and 🅰has impressed with his one-lap speed this year on his switch to the RC16, stunned when he took the lead on lap 11 of 22 and held that position until lap 16.

Despite dropping behind eventual winner Marc Maওrquez, Vinales was able to hold onto second comfortably and was just 1.8s adrift of the Ducati rider at the chequer♕ed flag.

A post-race tyre pressure penalty ultimately dropp🌠ed him to 14t𝐆h.

In a behind-the-scenes video issued by MotoG﷽P’s offic𒊎ial website, a discussion between KTM management offered an insight into how the brand’s motorsport boss viewed Vinales’ race.

“The performance was real,” Beirer said.

“The♚ whole race, consistent. Not lucky, nothingℱ [worked in our favour].”

Tech3 team boss Herve Poncharal added: “Marc Ma🐲rquez was like this [head down]. He had to give everything on the last two, three laps to make a break. Bagnaia gave up.”

Vinales’ crew chief Manu Cazeaux is seen in the same video in discussion with his team after notification was given of the ty𝐆re pressure investigation.

“I wanted to do a little bit less [pressure] because the risk of being alone was small,” he said, referring to the calculation teams have to make on setting front tyre pressures based on how they think the race might play ou🍎t𓆏. “But in the end we said, ‘Ok, let’s go’.”

Starting from sixth, KTM felt a top five was the absolute maximum on offer after its difficult sprint and would have set Vina🌳les’ tyre pressure to cope with the expected group of riders it thought he would have ahead of him.

Poncharal told 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:ma﷽hbx.com in an exclusive interview that Vinales let Marquez through in response to a warning on his dashboard about tyre pressures and was ultimately only a couple of laps outside of the 60% distance threshold of running inside the 1.8 bar min🌟imum.

The Tech3 team boss also noted that Marquez pulling away like he did contributed to Vinales🦩’ penalty.