The CEO of Aprilia Racing also spoke about it, Massimo Rivola: “If Maverick Viñales goes elsewhere, we will focus on an Italian rider“. The pieces of the puzzle are falling into place and in Noale they are doing things well, to have at their disposal a pair of drivers capable of aiming for the best possible in MotoGP and counter the excessive power of Ducati.
In Borgo Panigale they decided to focus on the super competitive duo with a great media impact formed by Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez from next year. Enea Bastianini will leave the Red team to join KTM, the same brand with which Viñales will compete in 2025. In this way the Apriliaalso taking into account the withdrawal of Aleix Espargaró at the end of this championship, he had to act.
The first operation was that ofhiring of the current championship leader, Jorge Martin. The Spaniard was clear: “If I am not in the official Ducati team, then I will consider other options“. And so the situation was created and an agreement was found in a short time.
It remains to be seen who Martin’s teammate will be and everything suggests that he will be Marco Bezzecchi. The rider from Romagna has long aspired to a Factory motorbike the difficulties with Team VR46’s GP23 could lead to this farewell to Valentino Rossi’s team. He has also spoken about it in the last few hours Autosport. If this were to happen, it would make up a pairing that was fighting in 2018 for the Moto3 title.
