Trackhouse Racing debuted this year in MotoGP as a satellite team of Aprilia. Its riders are Miguel Oliveira and Raúl Fernández who, after four rounds, are pleasing the Americans.
Team principal Davide Brivio spoke to PecinoGP and made two things clear – satisfaction with the current riders and the status of Trackhouse Racing within Aprilia: ‘We don’t want to be the junior team. But if one day there is an interesting young rider, we can hire him – but hire him for us, because we plan to help him grow. Like we did at Suzuki when we hired [Maverick] Viñales, [Joan] Mir, [Álex] Rins – we hired them to help them grow. Now for example we have Raúl, we have Miguel, we are happy with them‘.
The Italian then said: ‘If Raúl grows and becomes strong – Raúl would be the young one, let’s say – Massimo and I [Rivola, executive director of Aprilia Racing] have to discuss whether I should give it to him or keep him. In other words, if he is strong, I would be happy to have him. Miguel is already a mature rider‘.
On the other hand, Brivio emphasized that Trackhouse Racing aims to achieve good results and Aprilia does not necessarily see it as a rival: ‘We would also like to have our joys, our results, in this we are in line with Aprilia and also with Massimo – we were talking and he also agrees, because for Aprilia it is enough that an Aprilia wins. If an Aprilia is doing well, whether it is white or black, it doesn’t make a difference‘.
