{"id":326251,"date":"2025-12-04T02:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326251\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T02:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:35:11","slug":"alex-rins-i-havent-forgotten-how-to-ride-a-motorbike-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326251\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Rins: \u201cI haven&#8217;t forgotten how to ride a motorbike!\u201d &#8211; Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Rins admits there is no hiding from the reality of a \u201ctough, difficult\u201d 2025 MotoGP season, despite doubling his points tally from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The former Suzuki and Honda race winner slipped one position in the world championship standings to just 19th, while his best grand prix finish on the Inline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/monster-energy-yamaha-motogp\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yamaha <\/a>M1 improved only marginally from eighth to seventh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor sure, it was a tough, difficult year, because the bike was not performing super well,\u201d Rins told Crash.net. \u201cThen, as a rider, when you do not achieve a good result, it is harder, and the season feels longer. That is normal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I am happy because my group of people is super good and even in the toughest moments, they were able to support me to the maximum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gng_1269890_hires.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Alex Rins, 2025 Indonesian MotoGP\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Alex Rins, 2025 Indonesian MotoGP<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t forgotten how to ride a motorbike!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On paper, seventh in Australia was Rins\u2019 top finish of the season. However, his most competitive weekend came a week earlier in Mandalika.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/889478\/alex-rins\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/889478\/alex-rins\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rins<\/a> claimed fourth in FP1, then repeated that feat for a season-best qualifying, before tyre wear issues left him tenth in the grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have the right feeling with the bike, you can give your 100%. And in Mandalika, I had it,\u201d Rins reflected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a good setting, the bike was performing not bad for that track &#8211; and I haven&#8217;t forgotten how to ride a motorbike!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, Indonesia aside, qualifying proved a major weakness. Rins&#8217; next best grid position was ninth, and he was left to start 15th or lower in half of the 22 rounds, heavily impacting his race chances.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>While team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/911998\/fabio-quartararo\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabio Quartararo<\/a> finished third in the BMW Best Qualifier Award with five pole positions, Rins was ranked seventeenth for qualifying form.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3000_gng_1259128_hires.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Fabio Quartararo, Alex Rins, 2025 Catalan MotoGP\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Fabio Quartararo, Alex Rins, 2025 Catalan MotoGP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOliveira, Miller and I are all close on one flying lap. Fabio is the only one who could do a pole, let&#8217;s say,\u201d Rins said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has a lot of experience with this bike. It fits really well with him. It is his seventh year with Yamaha. I don\u2019t want to say we cannot do it, but for him it definitely came more naturally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the move to a new V4 is aimed at improving rear grip, Rins was clear about the main strength of the outgoing Inline4 machine.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bike performs really well on brakes. It is really stable and quite nice,\u201d he said. \u201cBraking is a really strong point. But we did not have a lot of grip with the rear, so it was all with the front.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rins experimented with his riding style to try and extract more performance, with little success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried waiting a little bit before entering the corner, but it did not work so well. So I mixed it a little bit with my natural riding style, depending on the situation,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3000_gng_1287025_hires.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Alex Rins, 2025 Valencia MotoGP Test\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Alex Rins, 2025 Valencia MotoGP Test<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the V4 project in 2026, Rins\u2019 goal is to regain \u201cthe feeling, the pace, to fight for victory.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd always the target is to win a world championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Yamaha retiring its Inline engine, Rins\u2019 Suzuki farewell victory at Valencia 2022 will go down in history as the last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> win for an Inline machine. At least for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Rins admits there is no hiding from the reality of a \u201ctough, difficult\u201d 2025 MotoGP season, despite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[40457,64,63,10671,806,805,803,804,85,3561],"class_list":["post-326251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-alex-rins","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-monster-energy-yamaha-motogp","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-yamaha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}