Upbeat Vinales feeling 'great' in wet

Maverick Vinales gave a positive assessment of his performance in the wet conditions at Le Mans in France, where the Yamaha rider was 10th fastest overall.

Vinales was 10th in FP1 and eighth quickest in FP2, setting his best lap in 1m 41.307s in the morning session, which left him 3.8 seconds down on Jack Miller's table-topping lap.

“I always learn, every time I go on the track I learn. The bike was good today and I was really good in the rain, especially in FP1 when there was less water on the track, I felt really good,” said Vinales, who is second in the MotoGP World Championship, only two points behind team-mate Valentino Rossi after the first four rounds.

“We sacrificed some laps on the dry tyres to make some more laps on the rain tyres and I was feeling really great; I was riding like the rest in the morning. In the afternoon, there was a lot of water on the track and it was a little bit more slippy, but anyway I was feeling really good on the bike. I think with some more laps I could get my lap times down and be quite close to the front,” he added.

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