Viales: I’m in a bit of a tense situation because I’m running out of engines

MotoGP rider Maverick Viñales (Yamaha) confessed that he is currently “in a somewhat tense situation” because he is running out of “engines” for the final stage of the World Championship in which he is third, and wished that the his team can give him “an extra” to be more competitive this weekend in Cheste (Valencia).

“I’m in a bit of a tense situation because I’m running out of engines. Here in Valencia I’ll do fewer laps and try to find a faster set-up, so I think I’ll spend a lot of time in the garage like in Aragon,” stressed Viñales this Thursday at the pre-European Grand Prix press conference.

The Girona native also made it clear that he will not take “unnecessary risks if it rains” this Friday. “It’s in FP3 where you have to tighten. We’ll work on electronics and we won’t tighten too much because it’s easy to make a mistake and there are three races left,” he said.

“On the dock, the most important thing is to have good feelings, and the complicated thing is if it’s all wet and then the ‘warm up’ and the race on Sunday is dry because then you can take a walk around the championship,” he added. the one of Roses.

Third in the World Cup at 19 points of Joan Mir (Suzuki), does not look bad to have pressure in the fight for the title. “If you have it it means you’re doing something right, if not, it’s that you’re lagging behind. It’s best to have the right pressure because having too much is also bad. The right one pushes you to go faster,” he pointed out.

Viñales believes that despite not being in the podium fight, the last few races “have not been so bad”. “We took points, but we made mistakes and we were also able to understand things. The potential is here, Franco (Morbidelli) had a good race at MotorLand and that gives us energy to have a good performance,” he said.

“We have already won and we know how to do it, but we need to put everything in its place and improve our regularity. The first four laps in Aragon were good, but then I couldn’t tighten, so I hope the team “The strategy is clear: finish in front of Mir and Quartararo and get those points back, but it won’t be easy,” he said.