Aprilia has steadily moved up the pecking order in MotoGP over the previous few seasons, making it a pretty goal for riders as practically your entire grid reaches the top of their two-year contract cycle after 2024.
Fabio Quartararo has been linked to Aprilia in latest weeks amid his continued frustrations with Yamaha, and the 2021 champion admitted final week that he has been conversing with various producers concerning the place he’ll race subsequent season.
However Aprilia feels it wants to herald extra developments on the RS-GP so as to lure in a star signing, because it overtly admitted it’s keeping track of rider market developments to finalise its line-up for 2025.
Requested if there was any contact between Quartararo and Aprilia, the Italian marque’s CEO Massimo Rivola stated: “To start with, we’re pleased about our 4 riders however we’re additionally not truthfully sleeping.
“So we have to examine round what’s the state of affairs available on the market and we’ll see.
“The precedence is to have a greater bike, then we can be stronger available on the market.”
Massimo Rivola, Aprilia Racing CEO
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Quartararo revealed in Portugal that he’ll make a name on his MotoGP future ‘fairly rapidly’, saying “I cannot spend months” to resolve whether or not to stay with Yamaha or transfer to a different producer.
However Rivola made it clear that Aprilia won’t be hasty in finalising the rider line-up throughout its manufacturing facility and Trackhouse groups, stressing his focus was on efficiency enhancements.
”I believe we’ll take time,” he stated. “Now we have no rush. I am not obsessed by selecting riders, I am extra obsessed about having a greater bike.”
Aprilia’s present roster contains manufacturing facility duo Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinales in addition to Trackhouse riders Miguel Oliveira and Raul Fernandez, with all however the last-named presently driving 2024-spec RS-GPs.
Espargaro is without doubt one of the keystones of Aprilia’s MotoGP mission and is prone to get a contract extension if he elects to extend his profession, whereas Vinales’ possibilities of staying overseas have been boosted by his dash victory in Portugal.