The Aprilia presentation on a Losail track which was then preparing to host the three days of MotoGP testing, the last before the season begins with, precisely, the Qatar Grand Prix, had apparently gone well. But there was the declaration of Andrea Iannone, suggesting that the new and attractive RS-GP owed everything to him. It would even have been designed according to his directives. A version that made Aleix Espargaró come off his hinges. The crisis is open within an Aprilia box which didn't really need that...
This is called having it bad. After hearing his always teammate Andrea Iannone, suspended following a doping case awaiting judgment, swearing that the new RS-GP owed him a lot, Aleix Espargaró saw red: “ we know how Andrea Iannone is. He likes to be the center of attention, but I think it was not only a lack of respect towards me, but also towards my whole team, all my engineers because I have been working with Aprilia for four years to ask for these changes. So obviously what he said doesn't seem right to me. »
The Catalan even goes into detail: “ everything he tried at the beginning of the year he rejected and it ended up working with my settings. In 90% of the sessions, he was behind me, so it seemed like a big lack of respect, but hey... I live my life, peacefully, with my family, training hard, giving my life here. And he does the life he does and everyone will get what they deserve in the future »
« It was super disrespectful » fumes again Aleix Espargaró. " I had a lot of teammates at Aprilia, I never had a problem with anyone in this team. I feel that my classmates are good friends, I also had a good relationship with Andrea. But what he said during the presentation, for me, was the end of our relationship, because it was a great lack of respect ". We will recall that, for the moment, it is Bradley Smith who shares the box Aprilia with Aleix Espargaró.
