Collateral victim of his employer's error, Maverick Viñales will be forced to start from the pit lane, and 5 seconds after everyone else, at the start of the European Grand Prix on Sunday at 14 p.m.
Indeed, between the non-compliant engines which earned Yamaha a penalty from the FIM and the engines worn out to the wire, the Catalan rider is forced to inaugurate a sixth engine and therefore to suffer the penalty there. related, in accordance with article 2.4.3.3.5 of the Grand Prix regulations.
Today, the number 12 saved as much as possible his old engine, already over-miled, during the two practice sessions, each time letting his opponents start before him by a few minutes.
Thursday, at a press conference, Maverick Casa Particular in Viñales had declared with a disillusioned air and laughing: “You know, I'm really at the end of my engines. In Aragón I only did a few laps during testing because I couldn't do many laps, so I couldn't set up the bike for the second race, where the asphalt and the feeling were very different. So I paid him and we had a bad race. But anyway, we will try to start again in Valencia, doing fewer laps and trying to adjust the bike very quickly. But of course we are going to spend a lot of time in the box, like in Aragón. »
