While Franco Morbidelli was blasting Prosecco on the top step of the podium at the Valencia Grand Prix after a tussle with Jack Miller's Ducati GP20, Maverick Viñales, official Yamaha rider, was taking stock of his tenth place taken 19s from winner equipped with an M1 from last year. Obviously, good humor was not in order...
By noting and congratulating a Joan mir now World Champion, Maverick Vinales did he have a thought for the moment when, as a young pilot, he decided to leave the Suzuki to go to Yamaha ? We are certainly always smarter afterwards, but all the same, the rapprochement probably slipped through his mind…
Especially since, as is becoming a dark habit, the Top Gun didn't have much to say about a performance that looked like a procession. Starting sixth, he finished tenth without ever having been a danger to anyone… “ I did the best I could with our bike, I tried to do my job as best as we could and now we are thinking about Portimao » resigns Casa Particular in Viñales. " I don't think much about others. I think about my work, do my best and go home. We hope to do better in Portimao and that's ityou”.
“Nothing is working properly”
« I congratulate Mir, he was great. We had nothing to fight for the title. He did a great job. We honestly don't know how to improve. Traction continues to be an issue. We will not have the 2019 bike in Portimao. Once you have chosen a specific configuration you cannot change and given the rules with Covid this could still be an issue next year” regrets the Spaniard.
"JI don't know what happened at first, they all passed me, I don't know what happened » admits the teammate of a Valentino Rossi anonymous twelfth. “ We have to improve. It's been 4 years. I gave all the information possible and you think you will have a competitive bike the following year. It's hard to say what to change, nothing works properly. We found something good under braking but we have no rear grip. We change a lot of things on the bike but we never touch the grip, so I don't know ". There is still one Grand Prix left, and it will be next weekend…
MotoGP Valencia-2 J3: classification
