45 Facts About Maverick Vinales

Maverick Vinales Ruiz is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer.

Maverick Vinales moved up to the CEV Buckler 125GP series in 2009, with the Blusens-BQR team, partnering Miguel Oliveira in the team.

Maverick Vinales finished the season as Rookie of the Year as he finished as the runner-up to Alberto Moncayo in the championship standings, by just four points.

Maverick Vinales claimed four successive podiums during the season, including a victory at Jerez.

The single race for the 2010 European Championship title was taking place at Maverick Vinales's winning circuit Albacete where he narrowly took his third victory of the year at the same venue.

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Maverick Vinales moved to the 125cc World Championship ahead of the 2011 season, partnering category veteran Sergio Gadea, who returned to the 125cc class after a season in Moto2, at the SuperMartxe VIP team after the Blusens-BQR team joined forces with American socialite Paris Hilton.

Maverick Vinales impressed during pre-season testing at Valencia, and finished ninth on his Grand Prix debut in Qatar.

Two weeks later at Le Mans, Maverick Vinales took his first front-row grid start with third place, and after a race-long battle with championship leader Nicolas Terol, Terol made a mistake at the penultimate corner and Maverick Vinales cut inside him and took the victory by 0.

Maverick Vinales went into the 2012 season as title favourite in the newly formed Moto3 championship.

Maverick Vinales won five races early on in the season, but a lack of consistency with several crashes meant that he was not able to keep up with Sandro Cortese.

Maverick Vinales later stated that he had not been informed of offers from other Moto3 teams, that the team refused to move him up into Moto2 and instead made him sign an extension to his contract into 2014 and that he was unable to win with them as it was a "second division team".

Maverick Vinales eventually apologized and returned to the team for the final two races of the season, securing third in the standings, but losing the runner-up spot to Salom.

Maverick Vinales moved to Team Calvo for 2013, riding alongside Ana Carrasco.

Maverick Vinales won his first two races with Team Calvo back-to-back at round three and four, the Spanish and French Grand Prix.

Maverick Vinales was starting to fade from the title fight with two races to go and only a slim chance left to win, but at Motegi both championship front runners Luis Salom and Alex Rins didn't score any points as both crashed out of the race, Salom being taken out by Vinales' cousin Isaac Vinales.

Maverick Vinales finished second behind rookie Alex Marquez, putting him back into the title fight.

Maverick Vinales signed a two-year contract with Pons Racing, due to expire at the end of 2015.

Maverick Vinales took his first intermediate class victory at the Circuit of the Americas on 13 April 2014.

Maverick Vinales ultimately finished the season in third place in the riders' championship with four wins and nine podiums.

In September 2014 it was announced that Maverick Vinales would move up to the MotoGP class for the 2015 season, riding for the factory Suzuki team on their return to the class.

Maverick Vinales became the first rider to move up to MotoGP after just one lone season in Moto2, even all-time greats like Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez spent two years in the intermediate category.

Maverick Vinales had a decent debut season with the factory Suzuki team.

Maverick Vinales finished 16 out of 18 races, scoring six Top-10 results along the way, showing consistency as his strength.

Maverick Vinales ended the season in 12th place, winning the Rookie of the Year award.

Maverick Vinales took his first MotoGP podium with third place in France.

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Maverick Vinales's strong start to the season continued with victory in Argentina, leading to many tipping Vinales as a championship contender.

Maverick Vinales followed this up with a sixth-place finish in Jerez and a hard-fought victory over Rossi at Le Mans.

Maverick Vinales went on to take third in the rider's championship, finishing the season on 230 points, 22 points ahead of this teammate.

At the Yamaha official season launch in January 2018, Maverick Vinales announced that he had signed a two-year contract extension, guaranteeing his factory seat through the 2020 season.

Maverick Vinales finished the season with 193 points in fourth place of the rider's championship, 5 points behind his teammate.

In November 2018 as the provisional 2019 entry list was published, Maverick Vinales confirmed he would be switching from his traditional race number 25 to the number 12 previously used by Troy Bayliss.

Maverick Vinales went on to take third in the rider's championship, finishing the season on 211 points.

Maverick Vinales started strongly in the Spanish opening double-header, with two second-place finishes.

At the fifth round in Styria, Maverick Vinales suffered a brake malfunction on the 17th lap, forcing him to leap from the bike at high speed at the end of the start-finish straight, leading to a fiery crash and a red flag of the race.

Maverick Vinales struggled in later races, scoring one win in Emilia Romagna but only managing one other top five finish in Aragon, before ending the season sixth overall in the championship standings.

Results in the following races were disappointing – while teammate Fabio Quartararo performed strongly to become a title favourite – culminating in the German Grand Prix where Maverick Vinales recorded his worst MotoGP weekend, qualifying 21st on the grid and finishing last of all classified riders.

Maverick Vinales's fortunes looked to be improving at the subsequent Dutch TT, where he qualified on pole, but ultimately finished second behind teammate Quartararo to score just his second podium finish of the season.

The following day on June 28,2021, Maverick Vinales made the shock announcement that he had terminated his contract with Yamaha and would leave the factory team after the 2021 season prematurely and not see out the full term until the end of 2022.

On 20 August 2021, Yamaha and Maverick Vinales ended their contract with immediate effect, opening the door for Maverick Vinales to make an early debut with Aprilia at the Aragon Grand Prix on 12 September.

Maverick Vinales finished the season 10th in the rider's standings, with 106 points.

Maverick Vinales finished third for his third podium in four races at the San Marino Grand Prix.

On 26 May 2022, Maverick Vinales signed a contract extension with the team for 2023 and 2024, still teaming up with Aleix Espargaro.

Maverick Vinales has a cousin, Isaac Maverick Vinales, who has competed in the 125cc, Moto3 and Moto2 World Championships.

Maverick Vinales was named Maverick at birth because his father was a fan of Top Gun.

Maverick Vinales had another cousin, Dean Berta Maverick Vinales, who died aged 15 on 25 September 2021 in a Supersport 300 race at Jerez after being involved in a collision.

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