The future of Maverick Viñales has at last been settled. Today, on the eve of a test aboard a KTM Moto3 machine at the Almeria circuit, Pablo Nieto, manager of the JHK T-Shirt Laglisse team, announced that the young Spanish sensation has signed to race for the team in 2013. The deal will see Viñales race a factory-spec KTM Moto3 bike next season, with the team that fielded Efren Vazquez and Hector Faubel in 2012.
The new deal for Viñales took a long time to sort out. The Spanish youngster had already signed a deal with the Avintia Blusens team for 2013 and 2014, the team he was racing with in 2012, before staging a dramatic walk out prior to the Sepang round in mid-October, in a dispute over the speed of the FTR Honda and the competence of the team. Though Viñales returned a week later for the Phillip Island round, he then focused all his efforts on finding another team able to buy him out of his contract and provide him with a sufficiently fast KTM.
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