Overwhelmed by a nervous breakdown after finishing last at the German Grand Prix, Maverick Vinales has decided to leave Yamaha. A friendly separation (it seems) is facilitated by the fact that Lin Jarvis, In addition to his own company, the world champion Fabio Quartararo will also save another between 6 and 8 million euros. The talented but temperamentally fragile 26-year-old Spaniard deserves such a henchman.
Not even a second place and the pole position in Assen caused the driver from Figueres to change his mind. the man who stayed with Yamaha to be the team’s first rider after Ducati’s rushing courtship.
Vinales: The previous divorce of 2012 in 125
It’s not the first time Maverick has acted instinctively: In 2012, when he was 125 cc, on the eve of the Malaysian GP, with five championship wins, he announced his decision Ricard Jove, then Honda Blusen’s team manager to leave the team.
It was exactly the same Jové, now a TV commentator at DAZN Spain, who was the first to unveil the sensational Vinales announcement last Saturday.
From Forcada to Garcia to Galbusera: a ballet by the Crew Chiefs
It is difficult to say why the breakup occurred. What is certain is that it has been brewed for some time, if it’s true that Vinales recently – but he said it was a Yamaha decision – replaced his crew chief Esteban Garcia With Silvano Galbusera, formerly at Rossi. For him it was the third crew chief after a first divorce Ramon Forcada, currently at Morbidelli and previously mentor to Jorge Lorenzo.
With that said Such ingenuity is not uncommon in the World Cup: the youngest was that of Johann Zarco who announced his early and amicable divorce from KTM at the Red Bull Ring two years ago.
Recent precedents: from Zarco to Lorenzo to Crutchlow
How can we forget about divorce before him? Jorge Lorenzo and Ducati, who came to a head on the eve of the Italian GP in Mugello 2018 in the middle of their second year at the manufacturer Borgo Panigale.
Then the Mallorcan won three wins in a row.
Even Cal CrutchlowOn the eve of the 2014 British GP, he announced his divorce from Ducati to join Honda.
This is just a reminder of the last divorces that took place during the season, because there are also numerous equally famous and unexpected farewells, but at the end of the contract, for example at the end of 1988 Eddie Lawson left Yamaha to join Honda and have a world title under his belt. He won the title again. That’s the kind of vengeance Vinales might want himself as he’s now in talks with Aprilia for 2022.