Maverick Vinales
- Team Aprilia Racing
- Bike Aprilia
- Nation Spain
- Date of birth 12/01/1995
- Place of birth Figueres, Spain
- Debut Qatar, 2015 (Suzuki)
Through more than 200 races across all three classes since 2011, the mercurial Spaniard has six top-three championship finishes and victories in all but three seasons, his best able to give the cream of the crop at any given time – Rossi, Lorenzo, Marquez, Quartararo – a serious headache.
Those higher points have been harder to access at an Aprilia outfit that has the spikiest performance curve in the sport, but he’s still a threat on any given weekend to run rings around the rest. It might only be for a session or perhaps a Sprint, but Vinales’ best remains formidable. Sustaining it? That’s the hard part…
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