168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Maverick Vinales has been praised for𝓰 finding the confidence and bravery required to win a grand prix🍌.

Vinales won for the first time in three years last weekend at the Circuit of the Americas to become the first MotoGP rider to e🍒xperience victory for three manufacturers.

But af💧ter letting similar opportunities pass, causing some in the paddock to lose faith, he has been hailed for rediscovering the winning formula.

Neil Hodgson told TNT Sports: “He’s been in positions where he should have won. He’s had str🍎ong w🅰eekends.

“Maverick has always been on good bikes. A facto🃏ry Yamaha rider, facto𓆏ry Suzuki…

“He has had opp🌳or🉐tunities and he has under-delivered.

“We’ve been negative about him, and I hate being negat🧔ive about a rider.

“But so many times we’ve said ‘he has n𓆉ot quite delivered…’

“I genuinely 🐓thought that the last piece ♛of the jigsaw was not there.

“It looks ♓like, the way he’s riding now and the balance on his motorcycle, we’re going to see it more often.

“Would you bet against him in Jerez? I🦩 still need to see more from Maverick.

“I’m 50-50. But you wou𓂃ldn🍎’t bet against him in Jerez.”

The past few years have not lived up to Vinales’ Yamaha heyday,🍌 where he ended two seasons third in the standings.

Three grand prix podiums last season could only yield an seventh place overall f🐼inish.

“He has beaten himself up,” Hodgson said.

“Not physically. Much worse, mentally.

“I know him well enough. You ❀see him walk around the paddock in a dark period, when results aren’t there, and he’s under-performed.

“He is an introve꧒rt, he’s shy, he doesn’t give any💮one eye contact.

“Because he’s so talented, it’s worse! Thജe hardest bit is having the ability.

“Some people don’t ha♏ve the ability - they are brave, good motorcycle racers…

“But he’s got it all. And now he’s using it to his𓆉 best.”

Vinales added his COTA victory with Aprilia to previous wins with Suzuki and Yamaha, as a result su🎶cceeding with three manufacturers༺ where Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo failed.

But his COTA win - where he lost pole position, fell to 11t𝓡h, then clambered back to the front - waไs no fluke.

His Aprওilia has been labelled the fastest bike at all three rounds by Massimo Rivola, raising expectation for what Vinales might be able to do at Jerez, the fourth round next week.

He has also won back-to-⭕back sprint races at Portimao and Texas.