After Sunday’s long race, Maverick Vinales was pleased with his performance and that of his team, despite finishing only in 8th place.
“Top Gun Maverick” stated in a debrief that he was able to unleash greater braking potential by “taking off” the rear wheel of the asphalt when he braked his Aprilia:
– Less, much less. (Contact of the rear wheel with the ground) It’s weird. But it is what it is. Normally with the Aprilia you can brake very late and never lift the rear, today we provoked the lift from the rear. So I was able to brake 10 meters later, lift the rear and then stop the bike a lot more. So it’s fantastic, I love that feeling. And it was something I asked for many, many times. We were lucky that here we weren’t starting third, fourth or fifth, where you can’t bet like that. But we made that bet and I think we can take a lot from this weekend.
However, the Spanish driver does not lose focus and knows that there is still a lot of work ahead, and a lot to understand about his RS-GP:
– I think it’s the tyre that’s harder and makes things harder for us. But we have something on the bike that, for example, in Montmeló gives us an advantage, but in others it is more negative than the rest and we need to understand what it is, because we don’t know yet. Maybe with today’s data, we can begin to understand more things.