Maverick Vinales to test Laglisse KTM at Almeria

Last week we reported that Moto3 team JHK t-shirt Laglisse team will be dropping FTR-Honda to take up the now suddenly popular KTM as their machine for next season and that they were in talks with Maverick Vinales’ management (who is still Ricard Jove) to help wrangle the Spanish rider out of his current two-year contract with Blusens Avintia – estimated cost half a million euros – and field him next to newly promoted female rider Ana Carrasco.

The latest news coming out of Spanish website motocuatro.
com is that Vinales is expected to be testing for Laglisse at Almeria on Wednesday, even though his contract issues still have to be ironed out, and yet he has gotten permission from Avintia Blusens (they probably are hoping that he won’t find that big of a difference between his current Moto3 machine and the KTM).
The LaGlisse team who his run by Pablo Nieto has offered considerably less that 500,000 euros to buyout Vinales contract, while Marc VDS has also jumped into ‘let’s see if we can have Vinales game’ and are willing to expand their Moto3 outfit (KTM-Kalex) to accomodate the talented rider (but prone to teenage temper tantrums) and seemingly have offered 450,000 euros to buyout his contract and have him partner Livio Loi next season.