When you're really sick, doing almost anything sucks. Yet that's exactly what Maverick Viñales did for the weekend of the 2024 MotoGP round at Portimão in Portugal, when he was apparently suffering from a bad bout of gastroenteritis according to the MotoGP broadcast commentary team.
If you were a viewer, you seriously couldn't get through either of the Free Practice sessions, Qualifying, the Saturday Sprint race, or the MotoGP main event race without repeatedly hearing about the poor guy's tummy trouble. No sarcasm intended in that statement, either; getting a nasty stomach bug sucks, and having the kind of pressure that MotoGP racers must feel probably doesn't make it any better. For Mav's part, he certainly wasn't the one complaining; at least, not in public.
