“Introvert, shy” Maverick Vinales praised for finding “last piece of the jigsaw”
“I gen🐼uinely thought that the last piece of the jigsaw was not there"

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Maverick Vinales has been praised for finding the confidence and bravery require꧂d 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 experience victory for th🅷ree manufacturers.
But after letting similar opportunities pass, causing some in the paddock to lose faith, he has been hai🍌led for rediscovering the winning formula.
Neil Hodgson told 🌜TNT Sports: “He’s been in positions where he should𓂃 have won. He’s had strong weekends.
“Maverick has always been on good bikes.🦂 A factory Yamaha rider, factory S🐎uzuki…
“He has had opportunities and he﷽ has under-delivꦿered.
“We’ve been negative about him, and I haꦗte being negative about a rider.
“But so many times we’ve said ‘he has not 💖q🐽uite delivered…’
“I genuinely thought th🦹at the last pie🎃ce 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.
“Wo♏uld you bet against him in Jerez? I still need to see more from Maverick.
“I’m 50-50. But you wouldn’t bet against him in J𒆙erez.”
The past few years have not lived up to Vinales’ Yamaha heyday, wh𒊎ere 🉐he ended two seasons third in the standings.
Three grand prix podiu𝔉ms last season could only yield an sevenꦇth place overall finish.
“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 introvert, he’s shy, he doesn’t give anyone eye conta༺ct.
“Because he’s so talented,🍨 it’s worse! The hardest bit is having the ability.
“Some people don’t have the 🎃ability - they ♛are brave, good motorcycle racers…
“But he’s got it all. And now he’s using it to hi🧸s best.”
Vinale🤡s added his COTA victory with Aprilia to previou🅺s wins with Suzuki and Yamaha, as a result succeeding with three manufacturers where Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo failed.
But his COTA win - where he lost pole position, fe🔯ll to 11th, then clambered back to the front - was no fluke.
His Aprilia has b♈een 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.
Hꦿe has also won back-to-back sprint races at Portimao and Texas.

J💃ames was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything ꦦfrom American sports, to football, to F1.