Romano Albesiano highlights the aspects that Aprilia must improve to compete for victory in every single race. There is still a lack of stability and consistency in results.
Roman AlbesianTechnical Director of Apriliaadmits Aprilia’s weak points that need to be improved in order to aim for MotoGP titlewhich momentarily seems like a Ducati-only deal: “Stability and consistency of performance, this is what we need to find”. The leap must be made on several fronts, both the technical one but also on the human one of the work carried out in the garage if we really want to realize great results.
Albesiano and Aprilia: “We must be better at managing variable situations”
As the results on the track demonstrated (just look at the two victories of Maverick Vinales) in Austin, Aprilia it is a fast bike and has great potential, but continues to lack consistency in performance, the weak point that the Noale company is carrying with it. After a bitter weekend in Jerez de la Frontera the Venetian company must continue to work hard to improve its weak points, which affect the drivers’ performance in the race. Romano Albesiano, the chief engineer of Aprilia Racing has done a great job in recent years and the RS GP has become a highly coveted prototype, putting an end to the voices of detractors who would not have bet even a single euro on it. Albesiano explained it like this what is missing to the RS-GP and its men to aim for MotoGP title.
“In general they are satisfied with the performancebut we have to be better at managing variable situations, as happened here, because we ruined the qualifying weekend. I knew the forecast was for rain on Saturday morning in qualifying. We need to be better at managing these things… Stability, performance consistency, this is what we need to find“. – Albesiano stated to Motosan.es
In MotoGP there is a lot of competition and to win at this moment you need to be one step ahead of the competition Ducatinot only in technical terms of the evolution of the bike, but also inside the garage: “Choices, knowledge of the bike’s reaction and maybe pilots who adapt a little earlier. Knowledge of rubber, because compared to other teams we started studying rubber, but we started a little later. So in certain things we still have to recover“.
Behind Ducati, therefore, it is Aprilia or KTM the second home of the Championship?: “Journalists make these rankings, we don’t make them. I’m just saying that last year, and this year too, Aprilia won races against KTM. So I don’t know if KTM is Ducati’s main rival. For Maverick it is essential to find the balance between the way the front and rear tires work. KTM is definitely a reference. I think we are at a good level and definitely we are not able to yetas I said before, to overtake the others at the start. The drivers ask us to improve the start“. – Romano Albesiano concluded
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