The last part of the 2022 MotoGP season will be launched this weekend at Silverstone, a track where, last year, Aprilia official Aleix Espargaró was so comfortable that he brought back the first RS-GP podium in the category. A year later, the situation is much more interesting for the Noale factory and its pilot. From extras, they moved to candidates for the title, second overall, 21 points behind leader Fabio Quartararo. But it's not just that. Aleix Espargaró will be able to count on a team entirely dedicated to his cause, his teammate Maverick Viñales included. Whereas Quartararo is too alone and Bagnaia too surrounded. Viñales will have a role to play in the next nine races and Massimo Rivola is counting on him.
Aprilia addresses this British Grand Prix with the intention of launching a real offensive on the title in this last part of the season. And for good reason: the terrain is favorable to it, as the 2021 podium showed, and for this 2022 edition at Silverstone, fabio quartararo will also have to deal with a so-called “long lap” penalty which will cost him time and places in the race. “ Now we are able to constantly fight with the best in the world... We can do even better and that's what we want to do ", said Aleix Espargaró who has scored points in the 11 races already contested. He has 9 left to achieve the feat and he has the weapons for it.
First, his complicity with the RS-GP is real. Andrea Dovizioso commented on this subject: “ Aleix has the bike under control, he does everything with the rear wheel, but he doesn't make mistakes ". Then, the whole team is behind him and in particular a neighbor from the shock box in the person of Maverick Vinales who has already declared that he would help in his quest for the Grail whoever convinced him to come to the stand Aprilia after his shattering breakup with Yamaha .
Aprilia: “ we are very confident that Maverick Viñales will meet all our expectations«
The boss ofaprilia-racing also count on him: “ we didn't even consider replacing Maverick in the future, even though the driver market was very busy and some top drivers were available at reasonable prices ", said Massimo rivola à speedweek.
He adds : " I think Maverick still has a lot of potential. We have great confidence in him. But you have to remember that he rode motorcycles with inline four-cylinder engines for over six and a half years before coming to us. If he had come to us as a beginner, it might have been easier for him. But I am very confident that Maverick will meet all our expectations ". To be continued this weekend at Silverstone, which follows Assen where the Top Gun stood on his first podium for Aprilia, while in England he scored his first success in MotoGP with the then Suzuki.
