With the start of the 2025 MotoGP season approaching Maverick Vinales' preseason has been underwhelming, but can he adapt to the KTM before the first race?

Over the years fans will have become used to seeing Maverick Vinales at the sharp end in preseason testing.

However, for the 2025 preseason, the Spaniard has been awfully quiet and only featured in the top ten on the final day of testing in Thailand.

Despite what seems to be a difficult transition from the Aprilia RS-GP to the KTM RC16 Vinales remains confident that he will adapt to his new machine.

"I think it’s a matter of giving time and believing the progress," Vinales explained on Wednesday in Buriram.

"It will for sure come one day, like a click, so we need to insist to keep improving and adapting to the bike. Right now we would like to be in another position, but we need to understand more and more the bike."

When Vinales was asked if this had been a tougher preseason than he anticipated he said: "No, I mean every pre-season has its own challenge.

"Probably we needed to focus on different things than in the previous years. It’s about the process. We need to enjoy and try to every day do a little step forward.

"Most of the things on the bike I like. It’s just I need to learn how to take the maximum from it. But it will come. I just need to do more laps."

When it comes to braking with the RC16 Vinales still has not fully adapted. However, he does believe he is strong mid-corner and on the exit.

"In terms of apex and gas, I understand it quite well," he explained.

"So, probably I’m on a really good level. But the way you need to brake is very different from all the previous manufacturers.

"So, it takes time, it doesn’t come easy. Then when you put on new tyres, everything becomes more difficult.

"So, it takes time to integrate into the system. I know very well, I’m used to it very well in the previous years. Just you have to remain calm and it will arrive."