We'll have to convince ourselves: with Marverick Viñales, it's all good or all bad. Sometimes the team is fabulous and the bike is perfect but it also happens that nothing goes right to the point of calling everything into question. This is the trademark of the Spaniard whose notion of regularity escapes him, and sometimes from one day to the next in a meeting. A new demonstration of these ups and downs was made during this Barcelona Grand Prix…
A Misano 1, he castigated his tire specialist after a disappointing race, the following weekend he reconciled everyone by winning Misano 2 and a week later he is sour at the arrival of Barcelona Grand Prix. This is how the championship takes place Maverick Vinales who seems to have a thing for roller coasters…
But when we listen to the progress of his Catalan race, we realize that the Top Gun was as if resigned from the start... On Sky Sport MotoGP, he expressed himself as follows: “ initially I was arrested. I had all the Ducatis around, so a disaster. It took me fifteen laps to overtake Aleix Espargaró and Cal Crutchlow, a disaster, I overtook them at turn 5 on the outside, the only place where I could overtake. It's a bit ridiculous... ».
“I have to go ahead”
Maverick explains what the solution is to avoid the problems he encountered in Catalonia: “ I have to start first, so we have to do it. All weekend I was stronger than Aleix and Cal, but it was impossible to overtake them in the first laps. I tried to get as many points as possible. It is necessary to go first or second in qualifying. My race was already lost starting fifth with all the Ducatis around. Too bad, we made the configuration error in qualifying ».
The Yamaha Monster Energy rider highlights the usual engine problem with his M1: “ for me it's difficult to overtake, it ruined my race. Finally I had a good pace, but it's complicated if you can't overtake. When I'm third, fourth and fifth, I have problems. We must try to improve and start from the front ». Maverick Vinales is now third in the championt, 18 points behind his future teammate fabio quartararo.
MotoGP Barcelona J3: classification
