Movistar Yamaha Score First and Second Row in Silverstone Qualifying

Qualifying

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP's Maverick Viñales attacked the shoot-out at full speed and took fourth place at a sunny Silverstone Circuit to score second position on the grid for tomorrow's Octo British Grand Prix. Viñales followed his teammate out of pit lane at the start of the 15-minute shoot-out. He immediately put his Yamaha YZR-M1 inside the top-3 and followed it up with a 2'00.485s for second place on his second try.

The young Spaniard quickly made his way back to the Movistar Yamaha box for a set of fresh tyres. When he was back out on track with five minutes remaining, the riders' provisional ranking shuffled as the times dropped. Viñales set a personal best lap, a 2'00.341s, for fourth position, 0.400s from the front. As he was unable to make further progress on his last lap, he will start tomorrow's race from the second row of the grid.

Maverick Viñales

Position: 4th - Time: 2'00.341 - Laps: 7

"I feel OK. I think we did a good job, especially in FP4, I'm quite happy about that. For qualifying we modified the bike a little bit and I didn't feel that great, but anyway we know that we are quite strong here and tomorrow we are going to try to do our best. We didn't make one big improvement today, we made small ones. Tomorrow we have one more chance to work and try to improve."

Massimo Meregalli

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP - Team Director

"Both sides of the garage did a good job today. Maverick will be starting from a good position, from fourth place on the second row. He feels comfortable on the bike and he's happy about the job he was able to do today, though we think there is still some room for improvement. During FP4 we faced some difficulties with the pace and we need to understand the reason. It might be due to a change in track conditions following this morning's rain, or there might be another reason, so we will continue to work tonight, and tomorrow in the warm up, to prepare for the race."