A major setback to Aprilia has been pinpointed - and it is in addition to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin’s trouble.

The MotoGP champion Martin was Aprilia’s star signing but his title defence is already in ruin due to a spate of i✤njuries.

He first injured a delicate bone in the hand which ruled him out of the first few rounds, but upon returning in Qatar, a scary crash left him with fractured ribs and a collapse🐎d lung.

Yet, the unfortunate Aprilia have been reminded another another significant blow they 🌳have absorbed.

“Los💧ing Romano Albesiano was a big thing,” TNT Sports’ Neil Hodgson said.

“He was the leader of the project. He wa🥃s the Gigi 🅷Dall’Igna of Aprilia.

“He’d been there a long timꦜe. Maybe that sent 🍒a shockwave.”

Albesiano swapped his job as Aprilia’s technical director to join Honda, where his influence has seemingly already been felt tꦍhis year.

Honda’s rise in t🌊he right direction is in contrast to the difficulties🥂 faced by Albesiano’s former employers in Italy.

Fabiano Sterlacchini replaced Albesi𒈔ano at Aprilia, joining after a stint at KTM.

Jorge Martin’s first Aprilia feedback was good

The highest-placed Aprilia✨ rider in the MotoGP standings is Marco Bezzecchi in ninth.

But it’s not all doom and gloom for Aprilia.

“Martin was happy with the bike,” Sylvain 🦄Guintoli told TNT Sports about the champion’s first laps since leaving Ducati.

“His 💧first comment in Qatar was, in Italian, ‘🦄the front end is scary!’

“As in, scary good!

“Even th🎃ough he was in pain and couldn’t ride the bike as he wanted♌.

“He was full of praise and it’s such a 🔯shame he cannot express himself on the bike, and we haven’t seen it so far.

“Massimo Rivo💫la knows that. That’s why there is no pre﷽ssure.”

Martin’s eff💝orts in Qatar, before his crash in the grand prix, were hailed. It offers hope to Aprilia for his eventual comeback.

“It was in✤credible, I thought, what he was doing,” Hodgsꩵon said.

“I genuinely mean that, I am not just being positiꦛve because the poor lad has had three horrendous crashes.

“I was shocked, so shocked. In qualif🌜ying he was full of adrenaline, trying to get a tow…

“To actually pass Francesco Bagnaia in the sprint race? No-one thought♍✤ that was possible.

“He looked really good. He has to take t🤡ime off, rest, then start again.”

In Mar🎀tin’s absence, fellow ex-Ducati rider Bezzecchi has been unable to get the best from his new package this season🐼.

“If Jorge was there, he’d have someone to compare to. To☂ look at their data,” Guintoli said.

“They w♕ould both make each other better, and thatജ drags the project forward.

“It would motivate both sides of the garage.

“They are struggling a bit.”