Coming out of a Grand Prix of Catalonia disappointing and finished in sixth position, Maverick Vinales took over the Montmélo track for tests intended to help him get out of an impasse in which he has been stuck for a year now: encouraging tests, promising Grand Prix tests and an anonymous race. A headache which continues to the point that it could still be present during the next round of the calendar at Assen.
A Batavian track which will be the anniversary of Yamaha's last victory in MotoGP... And nothing is less certain than this year of failure will be stopped where it began. Valentino Rossi regrets having discovered a Yamaha without the slightest notable evolution and postpones his hopes to future training in Brno to have the right weapons against the official Ducati and the Honda of Márquez. Casa Particular in Viñales, for his part, gives the change…
« We focused on my pace with a full tank because I have a problem in the first five or six laps. This is the challenge I currently face. We have progressed and that satisfies me. I didn't try a new tank, but we tested a new riding position further backe ”.
An inspiration that is not spontaneous… “ it was an extension of the tank but this new arrangement brings more movement at the front. We did this because Zarco rides like that, but we have two different bikes ».
Casa Particular in Viñales finished 0.881 seconds behind the best time achieved by Marc Márquez but also lost 0.652 seconds off his best qualifying time for the Catalan Grand Prix… “ I did a series of ten laps, almost half a race, and we managed to get the front tire to work better. I wasn't able to try the new Michelin front tire because we were focused on our own settings. We also received a slight evolution of the electronics, but without notable results ».
The Spanish driver is currently third in the championship, 38 points behind the leader Marquez. The last time that Casa Particular in Viñales The last time he found himself out of the points was at the 2017 Assen race, where he crashed on the twelfth lap. He is with Danilo Petrucci, the driver who scored at the end of the seven Grands Prix contested this season.
MotoGP Test IRTA Barcelona: Chronos
| 1 | 93 | Marc Marquez | Honda RC213V | 1:38.916 | ||
| 2 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Suzuki GSX-RR | 1:39.020 | 0.104 | 0.104 |
| 3 | 53 | Tito Rabat | Ducati GP17 | 1:39.362 | 0.446 | 0.342 |
| 4 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Ducati GP18 | 1:39.488 | 0.572 | 0.126 |
| 5 | 5 | Johann zarco | Yamaha M1 | 1:39.534 | 0.618 | 0.046 |
| 6 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Honda RC213V | 1:39.727 | 0.811 | 0.193 |
| 7 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Honda RC213V | 1:39.738 | 0.822 | 0.011 |
| 8 | 42 | alex rins | Suzuki GSX-RR | 1:39.793 | 0.877 | 0.055 |
| 9 | 25 | Maverick Vinales | Yamaha M1 | 1:39.797 | 0.881 | 0.004 |
| 10 | 43 | Jack Miller | Ducati GP17 | 1:39.799 | 0.883 | 0.002 |
| 11 | 41 | Alex Espargaro | Aprilia RS-GP | 1:39.915 | 0.999 | 0.116 |
| 12 | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | Honda RC213V | 1:40.004 | 1.088 | 0.089 |
| 13 | 55 | Hafiz Syahrin | Yamaha M1 | 1:40.108 | 1.192 | 0.104 |
| 14 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha M1 | 1:40.124 | 1.208 | 0.016 |
| 15 | 38 | Bradley Smith | KTM RC16 | 1:40.462 | 1.546 | 0.338 |
| 16 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Honda RC213V | 1:40.541 | 1.625 | 0.079 |
| 17 | 44 | Espargaro Pol | KTM RC16 | 1:40.721 | 1.805 | 0.180 |
| 18 | 45 | Scott Redding | Aprilia RS-GP | 1:40.732 | 1.816 | 0.011 |
| 19 | 10 | Xavier Simeon | Ducati GP16 | 1:41.145 | 2.229 | 0.413 |
| 20 | 12 | Tom Luthi | Honda RC213V | 1:41.207 | 2.291 | 0.062 |
| 21 | 50 | Sylvain Guintoli | Suzuki GSX-RR | 1:41.316 | 2.400 | 0.109 |
| 22 | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM RC16 | 1:41.976 | 3.060 | 0.660 |
