alex rins began his MotoGP adventure with Suzuki painfully, falling heavily from the first laps on the GSX-RR. Then the Spaniard recovered and learned in relative discretion. Leaving his experienced teammate Andrea Iannone the pressure of challenging the clock, he took his marks, a method and patience rewarded by a good result at the end of the first Grand Prix at Qatar. In the top 10 and ranked best beginner, Alex Rins can unfold his own score. And begin to free ourselves from comparison with a certain Maverick Vinales.
An essential reference. From the same generation, one moved to a Suzuki team which revealed the other now at Yamaha. A parallel that Kidneys commented last December: “ with Maverick, we have often competed during our careers. He had two good seasons which means that I have to take his results as an example. And they're not bad at all. It puts a bit of pressure on me and it will probably cost me a bit. I always rode against him. He adapted very quickly and did a very good job. I hope to reach his level quickly ».
What's new from Qatar? A certain emancipation. Qualified eighteenth, Kidneys came back to ninth in this first race of the year and, for him, in MotoGP. First in the beginners' ball, he specifies speedweek : " I have great confidence in the bike. Qatar was really good, and I have to keep it going. Viñales is not my reference. It's my first season in MotoGP, the team knows it, everything is new and we're just working to move up the hierarchy as quickly as possible ».
By the way, for his debut at Suzuki in 2015, Casa Particular in Viñales had brought back a fourteenth position from Qatar. Kidneys collected the ninth after a good comeback. But it is also true that the 2017 version of the GSX-RR is a different animal than the 2015 version.
