MotoGP, Vinales: “The title? I’m tense. I can’t make mistakes.”

After his first win of the year in Misano, Maverick Vinales starred in the Spanish show, “La Resistencia”. The Yamaha rider seemed very cheerful and relaxed and had fun joking around with the presenter.

But he became serious, just for a minute, when he was asked about the possibility of winning the title: “I’m tense. I can’t make mistakes.”

Then Vinales spoke about the moment when, in Austria, he ended up without brakes at 280 km/hour.

 “I saw my life slowly pass before me,” he said. “I didn’t think. I threw myself. I thought of how I would hurt myself less.”

He also revealed that he doesn’t ride a motorcycle on the street.

“I think it’s dangerous,” he stated. “When they ride their bikes in between cars I say, ‘This is worse than a race’. I rode them when I was 14, then never again. I once tried to impress a girl, but I fell and skinned myslef all over. I was wearing flip flops and a bathing suit, and I broke my cousin’s bike.”