Maverick Viñales after the positive of Valentino Rossi: "I do not leave home or do the shopping"

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A basketball player in the same situation would lock himself in the pavilion and shoot 1,000 or 2,000 3-pointers.

An athlete would go around the track more and more to find a solution.

And a MotoGP rider?

When things go wrong, a pilot can only wait.

For next Sunday to arrive, for the motorcycle, this time, to respond.

"It's the only thing you can do.

You work in the gym to support yourself, you bike or motocross, but in the end you have to wait for the next car

laugh.

And sometimes disconnecting is difficult.

This year, yes, as the calendar is more compressed, you have less time to think, "he acknowledges

(Figueres, 1995), which has been discovered too many times in the labyrinth.

What happens to my Yamaha?

Why did I win one race and the next one I finish ninth? Without being able to train with his motorcycle more than in the official tests, patience is the only philosophy to know if in the remaining five races it will be regular and he will be able to opt for his first title.

He is now fourth in the World Cup, just 19 points behind the leader,

This Friday was the fastest of the training sessions in Alcañiz, but who knows how he will do this Sunday (3:00 pm, DAZN) in the race.

Last year he admitted himself "frustrated" by so much irregularity.

Do you feel the same this year?

No, the situation is very different.

Now I know what the weak points of the Yamaha are.

I know that the start is my Achilles heel and that if I don't start well, it will be difficult for me to overtake.

This year I feel very comfortable, but I have problems when I don't have a good start.

In his sixth season in MotoGP Viñales he has already seen himself in all situations.

When he signed for Yamaha in 2017 and won the first two races, he was considered the rival who would defeat

Marc Márquez

.

Then, when it took him more than a year to win again, it was rumored that he could even lose his position in the Japanese brand.

Now, after renewing until 2022, he is still a World Cup contender, but has been overtaken by the courage of young people like Quartararo or

Joan Mir

.

Not even the absence of Márquez has led him to take the definitive step forward. “Without him we have all failed a lot, that's true, but I don't think he's missing a unique opportunity.

The opportunity is the same every year, we all run the same races, what I want is to improve myself ”, he points out and talks about his winters, when he tries to change something, when he does different things to obtain different results.

A couple of years ago he turned to some psychologists, a strange practice in MotoGP, to dispel doubts.

Last year he left Andorra for Qatar to practice more than ever.

With the open doors of the Losail circuit and a street Yamaha he rolled and rolled, but for now success still eludes him.

This season he has only achieved one victory and two podiums and, if he does not improve in the remaining tests, next winter he will have to reinvent himself.

Will you return to Qatar?

Proclaimed

that it is a country "that works better than Spain."

I don't think I can come back for the coronavirus, but it was a good opportunity, honestly.

There the facilities are very good and I had them for free, they gave me many facilities so that I could train, but like at home you are nowhere.

It's where the family is, where I know everything, it's beautiful ...

Although now going out for a walk, nothing.

The positive for coronavirus of

Valentino rossi

, which will leave him without competing in Alcañiz, has shown the drivers that danger lurks.

Beyond the symptoms of the virus itself, the result of a PCR can force anyone to miss a race and therefore forget the title.

Many, yes, point out that they were already taking precautions.

«Since the World Cup came back, I hardly ever leave my house in Andorra.

I became a gym and I have a group of people who even do my shopping.

When I come back from a race, before contacting me, they do a PCR and help me during the week.

Right now I just go from the circuits to home and from home to the circuits.

You have to do it like this because a positive will ruin the whole season, "admits Viñales, who closes Zoom's conversation by wrapping up warmly to go out into the cold of Alcañiz again.

The most uncertain World Championship will be decided at low temperatures and, between races, the Spaniard will only be able to wait for his Yamaha to work on Sundays and that, once and for all, his moment arrives.

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