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BSN's Top 10 MotoGP Riders of the Year: 6th - Maverick Vinales

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The start of the 2025 season is approaching, but now is the perfect time to look back at the 2024 MotoGP World Championship. BSN brings you our Top 10 MotoGP Riders of the Year.

Coming in at number six is... Maverick Vinales!

6th:Maverick Vinales
Team:Aprilia Racing
Motorcycle:Aprilia RS-GP
Overall Classification:7th
Points:190
Best Result:1st [American Grand Prix], 1st [Portuguese & American Sprint Race]

Three years with Aprilia, no titles and only one race win... was Maverick Vinales' time with the Italian manufacturer a failure?

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Maverick Vinales has been in the MotoGP World Championship since 2015 when he rode for Suzuki. Since then the Spaniard has ridden for Yamaha and Aprilia, but title success has always managed to elude Vinales.

Consistency was one of Vinales' weak points again in 2024, but he did find strong results early on in the season. The Spaniard was the top Aprilia rider last season and was the only non-Ducati race winner throughout the year.

During the 2024 MotoGP season, Vinales stood on five MotoGP podiums across Grands Prix and Sprint Races. Three of these podiums were as race wins, Vinales had one Grand Prix victory in America and won two Sprint Races.

In 12 of the 20 Grands Prix throughout the season Vinales was inside the top ten and only failed to score points in three of the Grands Prix. Vinales ended the year in seventh in the World Championship, but if it wasn't for an Aprilia mechanical issue it would have been higher as he missed out on a Grand Prix win in Portugal.

For 2025 Vinales will move to the Red Bull KTM Tech3 team. This will be the fourth team and fourth manufacturer that the Spaniard will have raced for across his 11 years in the MotoGP World Championship.

BSN’s Top 10 MotoGP Riders of 2024

7th - Brad Binder

8th - Fabio di Giannantonio

9th - Franco Morbidelli

10th Alex Marquez

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