Maverick Vinales says riding the KTM has made him “understand why it was so complicated for me to overtake” on his previous MotoGP bike♚s.

The 10-time MotoGP race winner joined KTM with the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tech3 team at the start of the 2025 season, having previously ridden Aprili🉐a, Yamaha 🎐and Suzuki bikes.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Maverick Vinales has largely been KTM’s top rider in what has been a tough campaign for the Austrian marque, with the Spaniard fin🉐ishing second on the road in the Qatar Grand Prix before a tyre ꦛpressure penalty demoted him.

From the moment he jumped on the KTM, Vinales noted that he felt like🅰 he had a bike he cou𝐆ld fight with due to the bike’s powerful engine.

In an exclusive interview with wuqian0821.com, Vinales reveals that the RC16 has made itꦉ clear to him why “it was so complicated” for him to overtake on his previo🍌us bikes.

“Basically, I thought ‘ok, now I understand why it was so complicated for me to overtake’,” he said when asked if r✃iding the KTM made him question how he won on slower bikes.

“Because for me now it’s easy to overtake; I can overtake wherever🔥 I like.

“Especially if I’m fast I can overtake 𓆏in the next corner if I want.

“But, 𓆉with the Yamaha or Aprilia it was so hard because always🎶 I was like four, five bikes behind.

“Yeah, I wa✱s trying it and 💦I would end up in the gravel! Now it’s quite easy, to be honest.

“That’s been the thing I’ve understood on t🌊he KTM - this is different to battle with.”

Aprilia experience helping Maverick Vinales adapt to KTM

Despite a tricky pre-season phase on the new KTM, Vinales has been able to find a good base set-up💎 on the RC16 that the marque’s other riders have since begun to follow.

It’𒆙s in contrast to when Vinales joined Aprilia late in the 2021 season following his acrimonious split from Yamaha.

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Adapting to the V4 Aprilia having onꦺly ever ridden inline-four bikes to that point took Vinales time, with his first podium not coming until his 16th race on the RS-GP.

Asked if this 🌠experience has helped him approach the KTM challenge differently, he said: “The experience is a plus always in life.

“And o𓃲bviously when I jumped onto the Aprilia, that was🅠 massive.

“Tha💛t was something I never expected, because I remember in Misano… the Yamaha was very fast at ๊Misano.

“I did many pole positions, winning races, being on t🐼he podium.

“And I neve𒅌r felt not even one bump on this track [on the Yamaha]. When I jumped onto the𝓀 Aprilia, I felt every single bump on the track, I said ‘maybe they changed the track or something’.

“It was a different track! So, thiꦓs was a nice experience and I understood really ♓well with the KTM. For me, it was amazing.

“I went to sleep [thinking] ‘if Misano is bumpy, I don’t know what t♒he bumpy tracks will be like’ ꦜbecause it was so shocking for me.

“But this experience helped me a l💎ot in KTM to understand that there is a proceꦕss.

“Of course you already want to be from the first race fighting at the front. But there ♕is a process that you cannot jump.

“You need to do it. If it’s quicker or not, it 🎶depen🧸ds on the situation. There is an adaptation to the bike, to the engine.

“For example, I passed from cable gas [throttle conne🧜ction] to electronic gas. You need to adapt.”