The good performance of Maverick Viñales in the Qatar of MotoGP contrasted with those of their box neighbor at the KTM Tech3, Enea Bastianini. A penalty for the pressure of the tires prevented the second place of the Gerundense and sent him to 14th when he fell 16 seconds of penalty, but did not eclipse his great performance. “It’s a sign of what is about to come,” proclaimed ‘Mack’.
In the case of the beast, it was a black weekend: classified on the 20th on a grill, it was 13th in the sprint and eleventh in the Sunday race, winning a place for the punishment of his partner.
Little happy
Rimini’s was unhappy with his result. “I was waiting for something else, but it cost me a lot to advance, for the reason that the motorcycle was skilled and it was hard for me to have acceleration. It is a shame because I was well and surely I had a rhythm to be much later. Then, I made an error in the attempt to advance Luca Marini and I went out, so I had to rebuild the entire race,” he summarized.
Bastianini believes that his problems begin in training. “The classification on Saturdays is slowing down a lot, it is very difficult to go out from so back on a grill. We have to take a step in that aspect because if we are not committed to making mediocre races,” he launched.
Maverick’s motivation
Enea admitted that seeing the Catalan so up to the Catalan. “An important classification serves to improve and for the future. On the tuning of the motorcycle you have to work, I was waiting for a more important leap from Friday to Sunday, the potential is there, Maverick has made a great race, therefore I am sure that we can also do it,” he said.
Critical words
The Italian was cryptic with a message that he did not want to give many explanations. “Maverick is using a different motorcycle from ours, but, for the moment, I cannot talk about the subject because they have not let me use it. But what Maverick has done is also more merit of his, not only of the motorcycle, he has adapted well, it has been quick soon, he has been very good,” he proclaimed.