'...Then the bike gripped and I went straight' - Maverick Vinales.
After being thrown from his Aprilia when the rear slid-out under power at Turn 10 in Saturday's qualifying, it was an off-throttle moment that sent him ‘dirt tracking’ through the gravel on lap 7 of the grand prix.
“It was ‘oh… I am going to fly very high’. Then the bike gripped and I went straight. It’s a shame, but races are like this and we need to learn.” Insisting his physical condition from the qualifying highside was not a limitation on Sunday, Vinales predicted that even without the off-track excursion he would have finished 10 seconds behind race winner Francesco Bagnaia.
“It’s a few races now where we are not at the level we need to be. On Friday somehow we can arrive to the limit and then it is hard to go over it, very difficult,” said Vinales, who led the timesheets on day one in Germany.
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