Maverick Viñales announced during the presentation of the Movistar Yamaha team in Madrid that he has signed a new two-year deal with Yamaha. At the launch, he said he felt very happy inside the team, and felt they shared his objectives.
“I will be two more years in Yamaha,” Viñales told the presenters, Izaskun Ruiz and Dylan Gray. “I’m very happy. I feel really good in the team, I feel the competitiveness, and especially I felt the desire to win.”
“It’s something I like, it’s something I want, and we arrived at a really good compromise, and for both, it’s been really special and good. So thanks to Yamaha, because as always, they made my dreams come true. Let’s see if this year we can do another one.”
Viñales said he felt part of the family at Yamaha. “You share the objectives, you share the passion, all the competition, so for me it’s like being in a family that shares the same feelings that I have, so it’s really important.”
“And then I have a really good feeling inside Yamaha, with all the staff, all the people, all the bosses. So I feel great here. As I said, it’s also a pleasure to be fast and trying to be on the maximum level, and trying to achieve the objective we couldn’t do last year.”
Viñales is the first factory rider to announce he has signed a contract, though at the Ducati launch last week, the Ducati bosses announced they hoped to sign both their riders before the start of the season.
Last time around, Yamaha sent out contract offers to both of its riders at the same time. Valentino Rossi has consistently said he wants to wait until the first few races are complete before making a decision about his future, and as a consequence, he had no announcement to make at the launch in Madrid.
Source: Movistar Yamaha
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