Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales says the set-up changes he made on Saturday in Qatar rendered the whole of MotoGP pre-season testing “useless”. Vinales – who won in Qatar a year ago on his Yamaha race debut – continued to struggle for pace in qualifying at the Losail circuit after a difficult winter, having to fight his way through Q1 and then ending up 12th and last in the pole position shootout. He was the only rider in Q2 that failed to lap within a second of poleman Johann Zarco on the satellite Tech 3 Yamaha. However, Vinales said he was encouraged by his speed in FP4, in which he finished fifth-fastest and less than three tenths of a second off the pace. The Spaniard admitted,...
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