Since the start of the Aprilia project in MotoGP, we have expected significant progress, a change that would move the lines of a strategy of positional warfare rather than movement. The drivers are clamoring for it while even the staff in the box recognize that the means implemented reflect a limited ambition. And it is not with this game of musical chairs in the workforce that we detect the slightest thrill of the beginning of a revolution announced for 2020...
Aprilia and one of the brands of the powerful European group Piaggio, and yet, it is the poor relation of the six manufacturers entered in MotoGP. However, things are moving there, even at the margins. Thus, in addition to the technical innovations brought to the Misano tests, the Noale house has decided to present itself in Romagna with a slightly modified staff, which it will keep until the end of the season.
The center of this change is Fabrizio Cecchini, until now chief technician ofAndrea Iannone and now promoted to technical coordinator of the entire team. A showing of responsibility therefore for the technical expert, who will now be responsible for supervising the work on the motorcycles of the two pilots, as well as those of the test team.
The one who succeeds Cecchini in the role of Joe the Maniac's chief technician is Pietro Capara who was the chief engineer of Bradley Smith within the test team. And it is now this position that must be filled. The Aprilia test structure is the responsibility of Paul An. Information from GPOne.
