Vinales needs much more before aprilia motogp bike is his

The nine-time MotoGP race winner switch to Aprilia from Yamaha superiority of the San Marino Grand Prix, without losing his ride with the latter pursuit an irreparable souring of relations which led to him deliberately trying to forfeiture his M1’s engine in the Styrian GP.

Having used the final races of 2021 as extended test sessions on the Aprilia, Vinales unfurled that work at the post-season Jerez test and made a step on braking – one of the biggest differences he’s found so far between the Yamaha and the Aprilia.

“Well, unquestionably we don’t try anything specific,” he said of the test programme.

“We just try to modernize the feeling, expressly on braking.

“It’s been an zone that I’ve struggled on a lot, expressly in races.

“But here we make a big improvement, with the velocipede and the electronics.

He added: \"At the end the objective is washed-up for the test, so we are quite please well-nigh how the velocipede was working, expressly on the brakes.

“Especially I was used to a velocipede with a variegated way of braking, so I just need to re-adapt.

“The guys gave me a hand, expressly on engine braking to make the velocipede smoother on entry and to restriction increasingly comfortably.

“So, that’s what we worked on here: increasingly stability, increasingly repletion and I can restriction much later. So, fantastic.

However, he admits despite making an improvement, the Aprilia RS-GP is still far from feeling like his motorcycle.

“No, no, not yet,\" he explained. \"We need much increasingly things, we need increasingly laps, increasingly tests. Not yet.”