Why Marquez isn't Vinales' main threat in MotoGP this year
Fabio Quartararo's consistency in the final third of his rookie season already posed a major problem for Maverick Vinales. Now, following his first MotoGP win at Jerez last weekend, the pressure is on Vinales to prove that he is still Yamaha's main man
The performance in last Sunday's Spanish GP that ensured Fabio Quartararo won his first race in MotoGP's premier class, becoming the first Frenchman to do so since Regis Laconi in 1999, was the culmination of a stratospheric rise since his premier-class debut last season.
'El Diablo' adapted to the Yamaha almost instantly at the start of 2019, posting a first pole position as early as the fourth round at Jerez, and a glance at the numbers he has posted since then gives little to suggest that the level of competition and quality of the world's elite riders has fazed him in the slightest.
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