Maverick Vinale�🍒�s says riding the KTM has made him “understand why it was so complicated for me to overtake” on his previous MotoGP bikes.

The 10-time MotoGP race winner joined KTM with the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Tech3 team at the start of th🍌e 2025 season, having previously ridden Aprilia, Yamaha and Suzuki bikes.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales has largely been KTM’s top rider in what has been a tough campaign for✃ the Austrian marque, with the Spaniard finishing second on the road in the Qatar Grand Prix before a tyre pressure penalty demoted him.

From the moment he jumped on the KTM, Vinales note🙈d that he felt like 💎he had a bike he could fight with due to the bike’s powerful engine.

In an🧸 exclusive interview with ltxcn.top, Vinales reveals that the RC16 has made it clear to him why “it was so complicated” for him to overtake on his previous bikes.

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

“Because for me n💯ow it’s easy to overtake; I can overtake wherever I like.

“Especially if I’m fast I can overtake in the nextᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ corner if I want.

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

“Yeah, I was 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 the KTM - t🧜his is different to battle with.”

Aprilia experience helping Maverick Vinales adapt to KTM

Despite a tricky pre-season phase on the new KTM, V🌃inales has been able to find a good base set-up on the RC𓂃16 that the marque’s other riders have since begun to follow.

It’s in contrast to when Vinales joined Aprilia late in the 2021 season following his acrimonious sp🗹lit 🔯from Yamaha.

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Adapting to the V4𝄹 Aprilia having only 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 he🔴lped him approach the KTM challenge🅰 differently, he said: “The experience is a plus always in life.

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

“That was som♏ething I never expected, because I remember in Misano… the Yamaha was very fast at Misano.

“I did m꧅any pole positions, winning races, being on the podium.

“And I never felt not even one bump on this track [on the Yamaha]. When I jumped onto the Aprilia, I felt every single bump on the track, I said ‘maybe they changed⛦ the track or something’.

“It was a different track! So, this was a nice experienc💯e 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 the bumpy tracks will be like’ because i♌t was so shocking for me.

“But this eꦓxperience helped ꦦme a lot in KTM to understand that there is a process.

“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 depeꦬnds on the situation. There is an adaptation to 🍌the bike, to the engine.

“For example, I passed from cable gas [throttle connection] t🦋o electronic gas. You need to adapt.”