Alex Rins believes Assen remains a strong track for both his Suzuki squad and its Yamaha rivals due to the circuit characteristics as he revisits a track which ♕provided him with a breakthrough race 12 months ago.

After a maiden MotoGP rostrum 𝐆in at the United States MotoGP last year, Rins struggled to replicate his front-running pace until the Dutch round when he was involved in the seven-🅰rider fight for victory before eventually missing out in second place behind winner Marc Marquez.

Since that race Rins has gone on to lead the Suzukꦑi charge, taking three more podౠiums in 2017 before his first-ever premier class victory, another first achieved at Circuit of the Americas at this year’s United States MotoGP, with a second place at the next race in Jerez.

Having missed out on the rostrum for the past three rounds, inc🔯luding two near-misses with consecutive fourth-place finishes at Mugello and Montmelo, Rins is eager to rediscover his podium-fighting pace at Assen which🐟 he expects to favour both Suzuki and Yamaha given the flowing circuit with less demand on outright top speed and acceleration.

“The key is to go full gas. This track looks like a good track for the Suzuki bike but also for Yamaha,🌳” Rins said. “But as you could see last year the grouꦕp was massive with a lot of riders at the front.

“We will try to give 100% and I enjoy the tra🐈ck a l🍰ot overtaking, doing the fast corners so let’s try to do a good job.”

Reflecting on his frustrating Catalan MotoGP, Rins is hopeful of righting the wrongs from that race having been a strong podium contender in second place during theꦏ closing laps before a clash with Danilo Petrucci which dropped him down to fourth place.

“When I was second I was trying to go from Petrucci but it was difficult and maybe in the hot conditions, I don’t know why, but we suffered a lot,” he said. “A꧙lso we suffered a lot trying to overtake the Ducati bikes.

“The pressure went up and the bike was floating. I saved a nearly-cr𒁃ash and I went home with points so this𝐆 is the important thing.”

Rins remains third in the MotoGP world championship but just two points off Ducati’s And🍷rea Do🅺vizioso.