“Somehow even in slippery conditions we have created a good corner speed and I think that is why we are very fast. We will try to push from the first lap and then we will see. But we are ready to fight until the end, the important objective is to fight for the victory.

“I worked very hard with my father at home trying to be better on the bike because the bike is the same so I needed to improve to make a next step if I wanted to be at the front. I worked very hard at home trying to work on weight balance and to see what I needed to be fast.

“Somehow it worked so I am really happy with all the hard work that we did as we spent a lot of days on the bike so I was very happy already from FP1 as I saw an improvement from my second lap so I was very, very happy.”

Vinales last started from the front row in Germany, which he converted into a second place podium behind winner Marc Marquez, while in his previous MotoGP race win at Assen he also started from the front row in second place.

But from his previous pole position in Qatar Vinales struggled in the race and finished a lowly seventh place.