Vinales: “I tried to hold on until the end” | Aprilia: “We’ve finally seen the true Miguel”

Maverick Vinales: 'I'm espe🃏cially sorry because we had a great opportunity to do well today'

Maverick Vinales, Marc Marquez, photo finish, 2024 German MotoGP Sprint
Maverick Vinales, Marc Marquez, photo finish, 2024 German MotoGP Sprint

After leading the timesheets on Friday, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Maverick Vinales’ German MotoGP qualifying hopes ended in a big highside through the long Turn 1ﷺ0 l🐎eft-hander.

The factory Aprilia star landed heavily on his b🦹ack and was slow to stand up, before being helped away by marshalℱs.

Subsequent scans in the Medical Centre fortunately revealed that the ‘blunt trauma’ had not resultꦗed in ‘any fractures or injuries to the lܫigaments and joints’.

But it was a sore Vinales whꦬo took up his seventh place on the Sprint grid, then briefly peaked in fourth place before being passed by Enea Bastianini, Franco Morbidelli and - at the very last corner - Marc Marquez.

"Before the crash, I was pushing to see where the limit was in preparation for the final time attack, and to be honest I wasn't expꦯecting a highside at that point,” Vinales said of his qualifying 𒈔fall.

“I tried to ho🅷ld on physically until the end. I'm especially sorry because we had a great opportunity to do well today. We can be at the front tomorrow, the r🌳ace pace is there. I expect to feel better physically.”

Vinales is 🍌the only factory Aprilia rider on track with team-mate Aleix Espargaro already ruled out by injuries from Assen.

However, there was still one RS-GP on the Sprint podium with Trackhouse 🤪rider Miguel Oliveira enjoying his best Aprilia performance with a close second place to Jorge Martin.

“Over the past few days, Aprilia has demonstrated immense competitiveness on the Sachsenring,” said technical director Romano Al🤪besiano.

“Going from an extremely fast track like Assen to🎉 this one, we expected to have some difficulties which, however, we are not having.

“Unfortunately, Aleix is not on the track and Mꦓaverick’s crash certainly affected his position on the grid.

“We are pleased with the Team Trackhouse result, we’ve finally seen the true Miguel. He deserves it, espe🐭cially after all the injuries from lඣast year.”

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