Maverick Vinales says Yamaha has finally given him a “good bike” after finishing sixth in the season-opening Qatar MotoGP race. Vinales struggled for much of the pre-season with the new YZR-M1 and its electronics, citing the Thailand test as the worst of his Yamaha career. Having to go through the first qualifying session in Qatar, Vinales was left a distant 12th on the grid while Tech3's Johann Zarco was just over a second clear in pole on a two-year-old satellite M1. Vinales made a breakthrough with his bike during Saturday's FP4 session, and says he has now “recovered the feeling” with the Yamaha which was absent during testing. “In the race I felt...
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