San Marino MotoGP GP – Viñales (4th): "We made progress in the wet"

Maverick Viñales, author of a promising pole position in the dry at Misano, laboriously finished the 2017 San Marino Grand Prix in 4th position for lack of rear grip on his official M1. The Yamaha rider hoped for better on the land of his teammate Valentino Rossi, forced to forfeit following his fall in enduro. MNC declaration and analysis.

Maverick Vinales, Yamaha-Movistar (1st in qualifying and 4th in race) : "I’m happy with this result because it was the best we could do. Honestly, we pulled everything we could from the bike. I gave my maximum and we finished fourth. We have to continue our work in the same way, because we have made significant progress compared to the Sachsenring race, also contested in the wet, in particular as regards the handling of the machine ".

"We still need a lot of grip on the acceleration. I’m going to have to continue in Aragón and I believe we can close the gap on our rivals. In the dry we were very fast. So I’m glad we had been able to take one more step in Misano. I hope we can do the same at MotorLand ".

• MNC of September 10, 2017 : 
• MNC file : 

Site analysis: Never in the game for victory, Maverick Viñales finished the San Marino GP in fourth place 16.5 seconds behind the winner, painfully hoisting his official Yamaha behind Marquez’s Honda and Petrucci and Dovizioso’s Ducatis. That is three different manufacturers in the Top 4, further proof of the exciting homogeneity of the MotoGP field this season. 

Despite the notable absence of his team-mate Valentino Rossi, Maverick Viñales had solidly attacked the weekend: the young Spaniard returned to pole position, taking advantage of an error by Marc Marquez to score his fourth pole of the year (after Qatar, France and Italy). Very competitive in the dry, "Mack" was disillusioned on Sunday morning when Misano woke up to the pouring rain….

• MNC Live : The pilots prepare in the rain
•  GP of San Marino – Mark (1st): 
• GP of San Marino – Petrucci (2nd): 
• GP of San Marino – Dovizioso (3rd):

Besides the fact that he only appreciates the rain moderately, Viñales mainly had a problem with the grip of his rear tire, which was too hard on the left side. A concern that Zarco, Folger and Pedrosa also complained about during the warm-up. In question ? A rain tire not soft enough for their taste in view of the low temperatures (18 ° C in the air). Michelin had not expected such a chilly atmosphere on the Adriatic coast at this time !

“At the rear, it was very difficult to get satisfactory traction, especially on the left,” laments the No. 25 who has not won since in May. That is already four months without a victory for the title contender! "The bike was slipping a lot and I couldn’t take an angle. Maybe our machine doesn’t adapt very well to this tire, in any case we have to continue our efforts to improve this point".

• MNC of September 11 : Michael van der Mark on Rossi’s Yamaha at the GP of Aragon

With this 4th place in Misano, Maverick Viñales loses three additional points on Marc Marquez and Andrea Dovizioso, tied for points at the top of the provisional classification (183 points against 199 for the first two). The Spaniard is 26 points ahead of the fourth, his team-mate Valentino Rossi, who will be replaced by Michael van der Marck at the GP of Aragon on September 24.. 

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