The MotoGP Portuguese GP will be Álex Rins’s second race with the Monster Energy Yamaha team. The rider didn’t start the season with the best results, leaving Losail without scoring points, and is now aiming for a better outcome in Portimão.
The Spaniard mentioned that the opening round of the season was useful, only regretting the final phase of the race: ‘Even when the result wasn’t great, our race in Qatar was very useful to extract some data and learn a lot for Portimao. It’s a shame that the last six laps we paid the price for pushing too hard to recover positions because our tyres were finished’.
With that said, Rins expressed satisfaction with the level he demonstrated, being in line with his teammate, considering it an advantage: ‘I’m happy because we were riding at a similar pace as the other Yamaha [Fabio Quartararo], which means that we are on the same level, and we can both work together to improve in the same way’.