Miguel Oliveira today said goodbye to Aprilia and the RS-GP, which he considered a very good bike but noted that to get the best out of it, there needs to be alignment and synchronization between all parts, something that isn’t always easy.
The Portuguese rider made a retrospective about the bikes: ‘Yesterday I was trying to analyze my career with Aprilia and I jumped from a 2022 specification to a 2024 one. I did a test with the 2023 bike and the bike was indeed super good, incredible’.
He then considered that the current version is highly competitive but that everything needs to fit together perfectly for that: ‘It was difficult, complicated. It’s a bike that when you click and everything aligns, the bike is really really fantastic but, if you’re a bit off it’s a bit difficult and it seems hard to make a difference’.
And he concluded, now that his time with Aprilia is over: ‘But that’s it and it’s no longer up to me to understand the bike. I gave my feedback and that’s it, now we leave it in other hands’.