If the first day of the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez was mixed for his teammate Aleix Espargaró, fourth best time in the morning, thirteenth in the afternoon, Maverick Viñales showed consistency in the ranking by positioning himself each time in ninth place.
Being provisionally qualified in the top 10 is always a satisfaction for the Catalan, but going from 0.433 seconds behind in the morning to 0.688 in the afternoon despite an improvement of more than a second, he knows that everything remains to be done. to do because the last provisionally pre-qualified is only 3 thousandths of a second behind him…
This is the price of an extremely tight championship, which therefore requires constant work on pure speed while the two Noale starters constantly appeared in the top 5 before the final race.
Maverick Vinales Explain : " The pace is not bad. I'm quite satisfied because today I managed to improve every time I went out on the track. However, when I put the new tire on, we don't take full advantage of the extra grip. Even though I push, times don't come easily, so we still have to figure out how to improve and get closer to the others on the flying lap. I think it's about understanding what's needed, especially with the electronics and the adjustments, because sometimes when you put a new tire on you have to add preload to the front so you don't overload the front tire. We have to find these little things. For example, on the Yamaha I always added a lot of preload to the front so as not to overload the front tire with rear grip. So we need to find those kinds of details. But we only did five races, so it's difficult to find these details when it took me four years (at Yamaha). So we have to work but we have to work very quickly: the others have had five or six years with the same bike, while we have had five races. We have to work faster, but we can do it. We have the level; we have to work with the mentality to be in front. »
Results of FP2 of the MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez:
Classification credit: MotoGP.com
