Vinales won the Qatar GP in 2021 when he rode for Yamaha and is twice a winner at the event.
After a strong pre-season on the 2022 Aprilia, Vinales has been off-colour all weekend at Losail and could do no better than 19th on the grid while teammate Aleix Espargaro was fifth – with almost a second splitting the pair.
When asked by Motorsport.com if he anticipated the Qatar weekend to be as difficult as it has been on the Aprilia, Vinales admits he didn’t but “cannot start crying” now.
“Honestly I didn’t expect it,” he said. “To be sure I didn’t expect it, honestly I expected to be at the front and much faster.
“But it is what we have right now, so we cannot do nothing. We cannot start crying, we need to start working, it’s what we are doing.
“Today we tried things that worked on the rhythm but not on the fast lap. So, tomorrow we will try other things, but we need to keep trying until we find a good set-up for us.”
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