Maverick Vinales: Life as a MotoGP prodigy
The man Yamaha has signed to replace Jorge Lorenzo in 2017 explains why his '16 season with current employer Suzuki is turning out better than he expected
It's been a big year for me so far, both on-track with Suzuki and working out my MotoGP future to move to Yamaha next year. For now, my focus is on the present with Suzuki and for us the first half of the season has been really positive and also a little bit surprising because we didn't think during the pre-season that we would be so strong.
All the time we have been in the top four or five and compared to last year we have made an incredible step forward. In pre-season testing, I saw in Qatar from my second run that I was improving my lap times and I knew that we were going to improve a lot this year. So we are quite happy, and personally I feel like my level of riding has improved a lot, I feel really confident on the bike.
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