RiderTua.com – Aprilia Technical Director, Romano Albesiano, explains what is missing from RS-GP and its crew to aim for the MotoGP title. After winning in Texas, the Aprilia bike ridden by Maverick Vinales had to settle for seventh place in Jerez. Instead, his teammate Aleix Espargaro crashed and forced him back to the pits with no points in the MotoGP rider standings. A gloomy weekend for the manufacturer from Noale, which, although it has shown great potential several times, still lacks consistency in terms of performance… Aprilia missed the last step…
Weaknesses RS-GP24? Aprilia Technical Director Said
Romano Albesiano as Aprilia Racing’s chief engineer, has done his job well in recent years. The RS-GP bike has become a highly coveted prototype, unlike a few seasons ago, when even Moto2 riders didn’t want to join in. Reaching the highest peak in MotoGP, the most difficult thing is to survive or be consistent. “In general I’m satisfied with our performance, but we have to be better at managing situations, like what happened here, because we ruined the qualifying weekend. I know the weather forecast predicted rain on Saturday morning in qualifying. We have to be better at managing these things… Stability, consistency of performance, that’s what we need to find.”
To aim for the MotoGP title, they have to be one step ahead of Ducati, not only in terms of motorbike evolution, but also in terms of garage. So it is the rider who must make the difference. According to Aprilia’s Technical Director, the choice, knowledge of the bike’s reactions and rider adaptation are a little earlier. Knowledge about tires, because compared to other teams Aprilia started studying tires, but they started a little late. So in some ways Aprilia still has to be better, stressed Romano Albesiano.
Can Aprilia compete with KTM… “Journalists make these rankings, we don’t. I only said that last year, and this year, Aprilia won some races against KTM. So I don’t know if KTM is Ducati’s first rival. For Maverick, it’s important to find a balance between the way the front and rear tires work is definitely a reference. I think we are at a good level and we have not been able, as I said before, to overtake other teams at the start. .”
