Maverick Vinales has described his maiden MotoGP win a “dream come true” after dominating the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
The Suzuki rider started third but took the lead, before the race was stopped and restarted due to an early accident.
He soon found his way back to the front of the field after the restart and proved to be unchallenged, taking his first victory in the premier MotoGP class.
It was also Suzuki’s first win in the series in nine years, bringing the Japanese team’s drought to an end.
“It feels incredible, for what I've fought for all the time to come true,” he said. “You know to have a race like that where all the time I could manage the gap, the lap times were so good.
“The team has worked so much and I'm so grateful to them. I came into the weekend thinking I could win because I've always been so great at Silverstone, and my bike was on a really good level.
“We did a lot of laps on the hard tyre and worked so hard. For us the restart was difficult because a lot of people put on a new tyre but we kept the same one.
“The key was yesterday in the rain because they gave me a bike to be able to be on the front row. Today, we did it. This is a dream come true and I hope I can give Suzuki more things like this.”
