Aprilia is on the rise and is finally showing off the power that the European Piaggio group of which it is a member can bring. The Noale brand will thus have four RS-GPs on the track in 2023, pushing Yamaha to only have two for the moment. However, the representative of the Iwata brand Lin Jarvis said until recently that he was confident about the renewal of his partnership with the structure of Razlan Razali, RNF. Andrea Dovizioso, like Darryn Binder, can begin to write their memoirs and Toprak Razgatlioglu his regrets, but these two new places will not necessarily help the big names looking for a helm for 2023. Because Massimo Rivola has a plan with the Malaysian…
Aprilia opens two counters in the Malaysian camp RNF extension which is also financed by the Italian brand WithU. An opportunity which will not only be commercial and technical with two RS-GPs mobilized in addition. It will also, and apparently above all, be a human adventure. RNF is promised to be Aprilia's incubator, both in terms of aspiring pilots and promising engineers.
To be clear about this partnership with Yamaha, Massimo rivola said : " Managing a MotoGP team is a job and therefore also involves long-term strategies, over several years. We have long-term strategies and goals, if only until 2025 and that is very important. As far as the pilots are concerned, we have a lot of time available and we can move forward calmly, there are many drivers on the market. We will discuss it with Aprilia ».
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A sensitive subject of which the Italian gives the trend in terms of reflection: “ there are several young people like Raul Fernandez, Remy Gardner, Alex Marquez, Alex Rins, Celestino Vietti… ". The priority for the new satellite teamAprilia will be to raise the youngsters to bring to the factory team. But at the beginning there might be an exception… “ The aim is to evaluate young talents » underlines again Massimo rivola on Motoracing.
« But it is also true that we are in such a unique situation that we cannot give up on certain market opportunities. But it's not a headache, we did it in the spirit of helping the drivers grow… If the possibility arises of having a driver who is not really a rookie we will evaluate him. This will be the only year we consider something like this, we have to be ready for anything ". The agenda of Rivola likely to be filled up quite quickly...
