Maverick Vinales described his Buriram MotoGP test as ‘the worst ever with Yamaha’ as both sides of the Repsol garage continued to struggle with electronics.
On the eve of the 2018 season opener, the young Spaniard believes the problems are still there and is hoping that the factory staff come up with something over the course of the weekend which will make his life easier than it was in the second half of 2017.
“Last year was difficult for me with many ups and downs, but above all I learned a lot during the season with my M1, and now I feel that we can do great things this year and that we can fight throughout the championship to win the title. I’m sure that we’ll always be challenging at the top,” said Vinales.
“The pre-season has helped us to try many things and finally we found a good set-up. We still have some small problems with the electronics, but I think we will reach our 100 per cent at the first GP. Qatar is a track that I really like, I won my first GP with Yamaha there, so I have very special memories and I will do my best to be on the podium again this week.”
