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Maverick Viñales: rediscovering his groove

Season 4, Ep. 16

Here's the chat we had with Aprilia's Maverick Viñales back in Thailand! Due to time constraints it was only a short and sweet episode, but great nonetheless. Maverick was in fine form and spoke openly about life at Aprilia so far since prematurely parting ways with Yamaha, finding happiness both at the track and at home, and much more. It's great to see him happy - and that comes across in the podcast. As the saying goes: a happy rider is a fast rider...

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