Maverick Vinales shared his number one goal for the Sepang MotoGP test as his new chapter with KTM commenced earlier on Wednesday.
The first day of MotoGP’s first pre-season test has concluded and the whole grid will conduct two further days, finishing on Friday.
Vinales joined Tech3 KTM after a multi-year stint with factory Aprilia as the Spaniard looks to win four MotoGP races with four separate manufacturers.
The Spaniard was the only non-Ducati grand prix winner across the whole 2024 season and finished seventh in the championship standings.
“There’s a lot of work to do,” he stated to Crash.net.
“For me, a successful test will be to understand the limit of the bike, to understand what happens when I’m on a time attack, what happens in race mode, what happens when I try to follow someone.
“To solve all these questions will be a key for me to have a successful test.
“Obviously I don’t know the bike enough to say ‘this is better, this is not better’.
“You can feel it and you can tell. But my target is to answer all these questions I have on my mind.”
Maverick Vinales reveals KTM ambience is ‘good’
The Spaniard revealed that despite its ongoing troubles off-track KTM’s ambience is in a “good” spot.
Vinales highlighted that KTM’s current working atmosphere is what he needs to be successful.
The 30-year-old will race for a satellite outfit for the first time in his MotoGP career but doesn’t think this is a hindrance considering how the tools he has compared with the factory team.
“I think the ambience is good,” he added.
“We all work – and this is the feeling I have – for one mission, and this is very important.
“Last year the championship was decided by a satellite team, so I don’t think right now it’s a question.
“Maybe in the previous years, yes, in another era. But now the bikes are fully equal, all the same.
“The feeling with the team is good and positive, so probably this will work really good.
“And this is the most important thing right now, to keep it simple and work in a good way.
“At the end, the support is there from the factory also. Technically, it looks like that, but when I go inside it doesn’t look like this.”
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