Jorge Martin’s Aprilia MotoGP debut took place in Barcelona, two days after he was crowned 2024 MotoGP World Champion, and the Spanish rider 🐠had a number of different fairings to try.

None of the fairings Martin tried were a huge departure from what Aprilia has been running since 2🅺022, when it brought the first iteration of its wide-bottom ground effect fairing.

That element remains in all of the faiꩲrings Martin tried, but Aprilia has tried to a💜dd complexity in two different ways.

The first fairing that Martin tried was the base 2024 fairing that Aleix Espargaro, Maverick Vinales, and Miguel Oliveira ran last sea൩son.

The other two both tried to incorporate downwash elements. These elements push the air ‘down’, but, when at maximum lean angle, they effectively evacuate airflow from the side fairing in such a way that a low pressure area is createꦅd to suck the bike towards the track and put additional load into the tyres, increasing grip.

The typical way this is achieved in MotoGP is with ‘ducts’, as first seen on Ducati’s Desmosedici🦩 🦩since 2021.

O𝐆ne of the two new Aprilia fairings used by Martin used this design, with ducts placed on each side of the fairing, in front of the main wide-bottom section.

The other new fa🍬iring seemed to be based on Ducati’s 2024 fairing. For 2024, Ducati🎃 had traditional downwash ducts at the front of the fairing, behind which was a wide-bottom element that itself had an opening at the front, and another at the bottom.

Effectively, Ducati’s 2024 designꩲ utilises both the duct design and the wide-ꦆbottom design.

Aprilia seems to have tried to develop their own take on this design, with a full-length wide-bott🎉om section that had an opening on either𒐪 side at the front.