Dutch MotoGP: Hardest race of my life, says runner-up Rins
Suzuki’s Alex Rins said he had to ride the hardes♚t race of his life to earn his best ever MotoGP result as he sealed the runner-up spot behind Marc M꧟arquez at Assen.
Rins made stealthy progress throughoꦦut the race and brid🎉ged the gap to the top four before throwing down his rostrum challenge.
The young Spaniard became embroiled in a battle with Maverick Vinales on the final lap and went underneath the Yamaha rider to snatch second place, claiming the best premier class re🧜sult of hiཧs career on the GSX-RR.
Suzuki’s Alex Rins said he haಌd to ride the hardest race of his life to earn his best ever MotoGP result as he sealed the runner-up spot behind Marc Marquez at Assen.
Rins made stealthy progress throughout the race and bridged the gap to the top four before throwing down his rostru💜m challenge.
The youn๊g Spaniard became embroiled in a battle with Maverick Vinales on the final lap and went underneath the Yamaha rider to snatch second place, claiming the best premier class result of his career on the GSX-RR.
Rins said: “It was incredible for me and I think the hardest race of my life in MotoGP. I did my best, we know since yesterday it will be a very difficult race with a lot of riders on the fro♔nt but we managed really ﷽well.
“In the middle of the race I was trying to push and 10 laps to the end, I was fourth or fifth and the first group was gone a l꧒ittle bit. I was trying to keep my rhythm, trying to catch them because I know I was able to finish on the podium. I overtook a lot and I enjoyed this race.
“It was incredible because two or three laps before I overtook Marc I saw him very strong on that corner, but I was feeling great, I was feeling good, then I think why not? I overtook him but on the next lap he overtook me so I said, wow, it will be a fantastic race, but also in the with Maverick also and with every rider, with (An꧋drea) Dovizioso – I enj🦂oyed it a lot.”
Rins said there was no ꦕsingle reason for his podium result at the Dutch TT although he has focused on trying to cut out small mistakes and said a new engine provided by Suzuki for the Assen race boosted his top-end spee💙d.
“Since Qatar we are going very fast, in all the tracks I was not riding in the first positions but riding with the front group in a lot of tracꦰks, but I did small mistakes and I was crashing. Now I try to kee🀅p more calm and especially on this track, Suzuki bring a new engine with a little bit more speed on the top and that helped us a little bit on the straight,” said Rins.
“That’s all,🌜 I think that all the races coming will be great for us and I will try to give my best in every race. We know that on Friday we suffer a little bit so I will try to be on the fro🐼nt the maximum races I can.”
