Maverick Viñales extends contract with Yamaha until 2020

Spanish rider Maverick Viñales, third in the 2017 MotoGP championship, will continue his collaboration with Yamaha for the 2019 and 2020 seasons. "Mack" is the first top rider in the premier class to formalize his contract extension.

The MotoGP Yamaha Movistar team is in Madrid (Spain) this week where the liveries of the M1 2018, the new team logo and the riders’ objectives have been revealed … in music! The crest of Iwata took the opportunity to announce the renewal of Maverick Viñales for two more years (2019 and 2020).

"I will play two more seasons at Yamaha and I am very happy," said the Spaniard, who won three wins and four more podiums in 2017. "Several reasons convinced me to make this choice: I feel very well in this team and I also feel this competitiveness, this desire to win. That’s precisely what I like, what I want ".

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Hired by Yamaha to succeed Jorge Lorenzo, Maverick Viñales made a thunderous debut on the official M1: untouchable during the 2017 offseason testing, the Suzuki defector confirmed by clinching victory in the first two races of the season. in .

 

Victim of a fall during the next GP at, "Mack" immediately caught up with a third success, pushing his teammate Valentino Rossi to the fault on the last lap after a Homeric battle. The rest was more complicated for the young man of 22 years, disturbed by the problems of traction of his Yamaha in conditions of weak adhesion (very hot or wet track).

Viñales wants to fulfill his dream: to win the crown … from Marquez’s head !

Unable to climb back to the top step of the podium, Viñales completed his first season at Yamaha in third place with 68 points behind Marquez and 31 points behind Dovizioso. A classification far from its title objectives, which did not fail to cause some tension: "I do not understand why I do not find the sensations of the beginning of the season", the champion was annoyed several times, calling on Yamaha to correct the shot.

 

"A big thank you to Yamaha, who has always made my dreams come true: we’ll see if this year we can accomplish another one," he now analyzes with hindsight, convinced that Japanese engineers will make sure to give the M1 back the homogeneity that it so lacked last year.

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With this two-year renewal announced very early – contracts will soon be extended even before being signed! -, Maverick Viñales puts the brakes on all its rivals: Marc Marquez, Dani Pedrosa, Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo, all at the end of their contract with their respective employers (Honda and Ducati).

Another driver affected by this deadline: Valentino Rossi, who to decide whether or not he will extend his – long – career by an additional year. His decision is awaited with a firm boot by many pilots … including a certain Johann Zarco, who !

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