Maverick Vinales is flying! The second Aprilia guide is taking the headlines, while Espargaro is giving in …
Going back to a year ago, the career of Maverick Vinales it seems to be almost on its way to its terminus. Until she appeared on the horizon Aprilia, who took the Spaniard with him, flanking him with the more experienced Aleix Espargaro. Step by step, however, # 12 is showing itself and higher and higher. The RS-GP is now one certainty and Vinales is flying higher and higher on the racing car of the Noale house. After many small signs here three podiums in the last four races, twice undermining the Ducati of Bagnaia. And Espargaro instead is dying out …
Vinales increasingly protagonist
By now the values in the fight for the title are consolidated, but Maverick Vinales seems determined to do so already tremble rivals for next season. Race after race he installed himself in the high areas of the ranking and is giving hard time also at red arrows unleashed. The latest example is the San Marino Grand Prix, with the # 12 driver showing up immediately. In the first free practices he is behind Espargaro, then he always remains clearly in front of him. Not only that, he is always in the midst of the Ducatis, solid protagonists of the Italian stage. We arrive at the race: Miller eliminates himself, Bagnaia takes the lead, but Vinales is immediately there. He gets rid of Bastianini and tails the Piedmontese driver, remaining glued to him for most of the race. Victory appears so closethe Spaniard tries for a long time… Until the tires fail and Vinales thinks only of bringing home the podium, giving way also to ‘Beast’. But it is another joyas mentioned the third in the last 4 Grands Prix.
Espargaro in the shade
The most experienced of the Aprilia house is still fighting for the title. Aleix Espargaro he is 33 points late after the San Marino Grand Prix. The problem, however, is that the gap, instead of narrowing, is still growing. Pilot # 41 is giving way, bad news for those who would like to keep the championship hopes alive … Espargaro is going backwards, overshadowed by a Maverick Vinales who instead continues to go higher and higher. The balance in Aprilia is clearly changing, the “newcomer” is taking over run up towards next season. The future duo RNF, Oliveira and Fernandez, is yet to arrive and has already taken it as a reference. The 2023 it will be the second full year for Vinales on the RS-GP: it could be him, more than Espargaro, who make rivals tremble.