Trackhouse Racing heads into 2025 with a partially renewed team, as Raúl Fernández continues – he’s the only rider out of four, across all of Aprilia – to transition from 2024 to 2025 – and welcomes rookie Ai Ogura – Moto2 world champion. The Team Manager talks about a ‘fresh start’ as both riders will have identical factory bikes.
Davide Brivio was in conversation with Crash where he began by emphasizing that the equipment will be identical for all four riders, both for the new factory duo composed of Jorge Martín and Marco Bezzecchi, as well as for Fernández and Ogura: ‘First of all, we have the same bike, and especially next year in 2025 we will really start from scratch with exactly the same factory materials, same factory bikes’.
For Brivio, the provision of the same equipment indicates an interest and willingness to improve very early in this upcoming season, though something similar was already happening in 2024: ‘And this already shows, in fact, the connection and interest. Anyway, we were very close with Aprilia, we shared a lot of information, discussed decisions, things like that’.
Aprilia as a whole, with two teams and four riders, seems to face many challenges this year as there are two new riders in the factory team, as well as a new technical director, Fabiano Sterlacchini, while in the satellite team there is a rookie, who will naturally have an adaptation phase.
Raúl Fernández is thus the most experienced with the RS-GP.