We are distributing to Aleix Espargaró at the end of the MotoGP season which also opens the winter testing period. Test runs that lift the veil for 2020… Or not! Because at Aprilia, we are currently working in Valencia with the 2019 machine without being able to put anything in our mouths to hope for better days. So, obviously, it annoys and the one who, already, had not considered Johann Zarco worthy of benefiting from an official Honda, this time takes out his anger on the manufacturer from Noale…
Aleix Espargaró will not be sorry to end a 2019 exercise which cost him a lot of energy. At the end of this vintage, he seems to be letting loose and after having completed his season in Valencia with a notable outing on the case Johann zarco, it is Aprilia that he takes care of, noting that, for first offseason tests, no development is proposed on the RS-GP.
A situation which should not surprise him since the conductor of the project, Massimo rivola, has already announced that the new motorcycle developed by the latest thinking heads coming, like him, from Formula 1, should not appear before the Sepang tests in February 2020. And yet…
Thus, seeing his colleagues rejoicing to discover developments,
Pol's older brother well served at KTM commented : " this is unacceptable ". He even develops: “ as a large manufacturer, we must work in the same way as other manufacturers. Everyone is riding new motorcycles. The ideal plan was to have the new machine here in Valencia. »
Aleix I will espargaro also worries about the Aprilia calendar: “ we will have six days of testing with the new bike before it debuts in Qatar, which is almost at the limit. We are not going to test the 2020 machine which will make it more difficult for us and we hope to receive the new bike during the testing in Malaysia ", said Aleix Espargaró, annoyed by these tests in Valencia and Jerez to do with the proven equipment.
« These two tests are not very important for us », Regrets the Spaniard. “ We have a lot of new engineers joining the project, and it's good for them to understand how we work and what they want, but other than that there's nothing new we can test. »
« It's been a tough season and I'm looking forward to relaxing and going on vacation with my family », finishes the teammateAndrea Iannone.
MotoGP Valencia Test J1: times
| 1 | 20 | fabio quartararo | Yamaha M1 | 1:30.163 | ||
| 2 | 12 | Maverick Vinales | Yamaha M1 | 1:30.327 | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| 3 | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | Yamaha M1 | 1:30.650 | 0.057 | 0.051 |
| 4 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati GP20 | 1:30.665 | 0.199 | 0.142 |
| 5 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Honda RC213V | 1:30.698 | 0.365 | 0.166 |
| 6 | 36 | Joan mir | Suzuki GSX-RR | 1:30.811 | 0.381 | 0.016 |
| 7 | 42 | Alex Rins | Suzuki GSX-RR | 1:30.958 | 0.447 | 0.066 |
| 8 | 44 | Pol Espargaro | KTM RC16 | 1:30.974 | 0.537 | 0.090 |
| 9 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha M1 | 1:31.012 | 0.550 | 0.013 |
| 10 | 43 | Jack Miller | Ducati GP20 | 1:31.130 | 0.550 | 0.000 |
| 11 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Honda RC213V | 1:31.183 | 0.840 | 0.290 |
| 12 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Ducati GP20 | 1:31.433 | 1.011 | 0.171 |
| 13 | 27 | Iker Lecuona | KTM RC16 | 1:31.645 | 1.081 | 0.070 |
| 14 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia RS-GP | 1:31.674 | 1.222 | 0.141 |
| 15 | 53 | Tito Rabat | Ducati GP19 | 1:31.775 | 1.559 | 0.337 |
| 16 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró |
Aprilia RS-GP | 1:31.815 | 1.579 | 0.020 |
| 17 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | KTM RC16 | 1:31.863 | 1.827 | 0.248 |
| 18 | 51 | Michele Pirro | Ducati GP20 | 1:32.016 | 1.986 | 0.159 |
| 19 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Ducati GP19 | 1:32.034 | 1.990 | 0.004 |
| 20 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Aprilia RS-GP | 1:32.090 | 2.240 | 0.250 |
| 21 | 33 | Brad Binder | KTM RC16 | 1:32.645 | 2.400 | 0.160 |
| 22 | 6 | Stefan bradl | Honda RC213V | 1:32.833 | 2.658 | 0.258 |
| 23 | 73 | Alex Marquez | Honda RC213V | 1:32.873 | 4.829 | 2.171 |
