Aprilia Racing CEO Massimo Rivola admits he’s sad to see 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales departing but is ‘super happy’ to have signed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marco Bezzecchi in his place for MotoGP 2025.

“What will happen, I don't know. But I think I couldn't have🍷 a better rider line-up for next🐟 year," Rivola said on Monday, after the Bezzecchi deal was officially announced.

With Aleixཧ Espargaro retiring and Vinales switching to Tech3 KTM, Aprilia will run an all-new line-up of triple VR46 Ducati MotoGP winner Bezzecchi (25) and current Pramac Ducati title leader💮 Jorge Martin (26).

Martin’s deal was concluded during the post-race test at Mugello, at which stage Rivola still hoped to retain Aprilia’s COTA winne🎃r Vinaꦕles.

♐“Everything went quite quickly. I knew that Mugello most likely was supposed to be a sort of deadline for Jorge, and I wanted to be ready to catch him. And that was the case,” Rivola explained.

“Then Maverick [made] his decision and he was very fair in telling us in advance. So from Mu♒gello to now, not a huge time has passed and for me it was clear the choice on Bezzecchi.

“The pieces went in the r꧃ight place quite quickly.

“Again, I fully respect the decision of Maverick. It's a bit of a pity, but at the end it gi🐬ves us also an opportunity to have an♑ Italian rider and such a good one.”

🙈Aprilia acquired then nine-time MotoGP race winner Vinales after a sh෴ock mid-2021 split from Yamaha.

It took the Spaniard longer than expec⛦ted to win on the RS-GP, with team-mate Aleix Espargaro continuing to lead the Aprilia challenge throughout 2022 and 2023.

Everything came together for Vinales at round two, in Portimao, this sea🅺son, where a Sprint win was followed by a perfect double in COTA.

Although he hasn’t been on a Sunday podium since, Vinale🐲s remains the top Aprilia rider in the world championship, in sixth.

“For sure I'm sorry to lose a talent like Maverick. As I said, I would love to see more ‘Austin’ with him and I'm ready to bet with you🍷 that we will see more of🧜 those by the end of the season.

“But I respect the decision he [made] and I think we had a very good time together. He was, I don't want to say lost, but in a▨ very difficult position at the end of♉ his Yamaha story, and we were struggling at the end of 2021.

“I thinಞk that the next 13 rounds we will see a fighting Maverick, I'🍷m sure about that. And I hope and I think our story together will end in the best way.

“I think he wants to be the o🌠nly one winning with so many different manufacturers. He 🎶has the talent to do it and that's it.”

Aprilia: ‘I think we are betting on the right horses’

Vinales’ exit means that Aprilia will have an all-new line-up for the first time since 2017, when Espargaro and arrived from Suzuki and was joined by rookie Sa༺m Lowes.

“This is the only question mark that we have, because it's not ideal to change two riders at the same time,” said Rivola. “But with two such goo🧜d talents [Martin and Bezzecchi], I think we are betting on the right horses.

“It's not ideal but we also have a satellite team and I hope that the satellite team will give us a bit of continuity. So let's see. Again, it's not ideal, but when you have a couple like Mart💯in and Bezzecchi, you must be happy!”

Rivola also praised the rolꦓe of test rider Lorenzo Savadori, who has been something of an unsung hero for his development work on the RS-GP.

“We need to give credit to Lorenzo Salvadori, who has been our test rider for many years,” Rivola said. “And despite, it looks like, [bei🐻ng] not really competitive when he does a wild card, I ไhave to say that he is a bit of a victim of us!

“You need to have the attitude and the love for your team, your factory, your manufacturer to do what you are asked to do. And so far, we always got in the righꦿt direction.

“For sure, the riding style of Maverick gave us an additional booster to the development because A🦄leix was already with us since a lot of years. And for sure having a satellite team was also another step forward.

“Soon there will be four RS-GP24s [when Raul Fernandez is upgr🅷aded] so that will be another way to step up, but we think that the drawing office and the test team in Noale are doing a great job.

“Obviously still not enough and 𝔍I know that it will never be enough, but we rely and trust a lot on the⛎ir job.”