Le Mans: Vinales: 'A track to be back at the top'
After leading three of the six days of officia♏l pre-season testing, few would have predicted it would take Maverick Vinales until round four to claim a MotoGP podium in 2019.
Nonet🍃heless, having achieved the rostrꦦum at one of his and Yamaha's worst circuits, Jerez, the Spaniard faces the more favourable challenge of this weekend's Le Mans round with renewed optimism.
After leading three of the six ꦡdays of official pre-season testing, few would have predicted it would take Maverick Vinales until rouꦑnd four to claim a MotoGP podium in 2019.
Nonetheless, having achieved the rostrum at one of his and Yam𒅌aha's worst circuits, Jerez, the Spaniard faces the more favourable challenge of th🍃is weekend's Le Mans round with renewed optimism.
Vinales took his first MotoGP podium at the circuit with Suzuki in 2016, then won for Yamaha in🍬 2017. However last year saw a subdued seventh as he battled acceleration issues, whil🍎e team-mate Valentino Rossi completed the podium.
“Getting a third place i🦄n Jerez was a good confidence boost, for sure, so I'm feeling positive,🌠" Vinales said.
"Le Mans is a circui🐼t that I really like and it's also the track where I scored some of the best results of my career. So, to me, that's a track to be back at the top.
"I really like going there. I just hope that the weather will help us a little because, if not, ꧟Le Ma🃏ns is a really tough track. In Austin we were quite fast in the wet, so we have to see.
"I'm curious to see what we can do there.”
Vinales - taken out by Franco Morbidelli in Argentina - is sixth in the world championship, but already 40-points behind Honda's Marꦫc Marquez and 31 from the top Yama🦂ha of Rossi.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Vaꩲlentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit♚ story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
