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How MotoGP’s underdog team hopes to “evolve” its enigma

Maverick Vinales’ 2022 season appears to be make or break for the trouble MotoGP star, as he embarks on a full-time campaign with Aprilia after his acrimonious Yamaha split last year. The team is convinced it has pulled off a blinder in signing the nine-time race winner and is doing everything it can to extract the maximum from Vinales.

Lewis Duncan Oriol Puigdemont Mar 1, 2022, 9:52 AM

Upd: Mar 1, 2022, 10:46 AM

MotoGP Unlimited, Amazon’s new eight-part docuseries in the vein of Drive to Survive set for release on 14 March, takes us behind the scenes with Maverick Vinales and the souring of his relationship with Yamaha in 2021.

It’s the kind of thing MotoGP Unlimited needed to deliver and it has made for compelling television. What the series will also (hopefully) do is change the perception of Vinales. As everyone who works in the MotoGP paddock knows, he is an incredibly down-to-earth person and is wickedly fast.

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Author Lewis Duncan

Lewis Duncan is Autosport's International Editor and primary motorcycle racing reporter. A motorsport fan from a young age, Lewis became interested in journalism when he won the star letter competition in the February 2012 issue of F1 Racing Magazine. A member of the Autosport Academy from 2017, Lewis became a freelance motorcycle racing correspondent for Autosport in 2019 before becoming a full-time staffer in 2020 as International Editor.

While MotoGP coverage is his priority, Lewis also covers World Superbikes and road racing across the Motorsport Network, and hosts the Tank Slappers Podcast. He has also occasionally commentated on 750 Motor Club meetings. Away from motorsport, Lewis is a keen record collector with a collection unashamedly largely featuring Iron Maiden and Rush and an avid guitar player.