After piloting the 2022 Aprilia RS-GP last year, Miguel Oliveira jumps directly to the 2024 version in the new season. The Trackhouse Racing rider had his first contact with the bike this Tuesday, at the start of the Sepang tests.
The Portuguese rider admitted that the differences are significant, requiring readjustment: ‘It’s hard to say how big the difference is. It definitely seems very different to me. When you add so much aerodynamic load that this bike has, the engine is slightly different – a bit more powerful. Everything simply works differently, the feedback is different, so you need to readjust everything.’
Oliveira mentioned that, for now, he hasn’t made many changes to the bike’s settings, a task that will have to be started: ‘I just set up my normal configuration, rode the bike, and clearly you can see that it’s not there yet. So, I need to start working a little more, and analyzing. But before we touch everything, we really want to ensure and have the problems somewhat separated and try to find effective solutions.’
