Ramón Forcada has a lot of reservations about what Aprilia will do in 2025, especially on the side of Jorge Martín, who starts the season as MotoGP winner, and will have to adapt to a new bike, as well as? much of his team. And the worst ‘half’ of Aprilia has left, as have the more experienced riders.
The Spaniard had spoken about Fabio Sterlacchini’s lack of technical knowledge of the RS-GP, as he is also new to the project, and pointed out that Aprilia has undergone a major revolution, and that Raúl Fernández is currently the most experienced rider on the bike. Aleix Espargaró has gone to Honda to be a test rider and has brought with him a lot of people from the team with in-depth knowledge of the bike, and Romano Albesiano has also joined the Japanese brand’s project.
Although Martín will be joined in the garage by Danielle Romagnoli, the truth is that the Italian doesn’t know the bike very well either, which gives Forcada many doubts, as he explained on the Duralavita Podcast:
– You say ‘I’ve got Romagnoli next door, my usual technician, let’s do something with the engine brake’, and Romagnoli says ‘wait, instruction manual’, to the engineer, to the mechanics who half have already left… I ask the experienced riders and it turns out that one is at Honda (Aleix Espargaró) and the other at KTM (Maverick Viñales).
And that leaves… Raúl Fernández, who is at Trackhouse Racing: ‘I’m left with Raúl Fernández, who has had an excellent season with all the material problems I know he’s had. You get a driver and a chief mechanic, and no more telemetrists than there were’.
By: AM