Yamaha MotoGP team director Massimo Meregalli feels he "believes in" Maverick Vinales sometimes more than the eight-time premier class race winner does in himself. Vinales enters his fifth season with the factory Yamaha squad in 2021 coming off the back of a largely difficult 2020 campaign. Though a winner at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Vinales only scored two further podiums and ended up sixth in the standings as the leading 2020 M1 rider - with Franco Morbidelli on the lesser 'A-spec' Yamaha just 13 points from the title in second. Vinales in the latter part of the season cut a dejected figure, admitting at one point it was "impossible" to think about winning on...
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