While other factories were on track with prototype versions of their 2020 MotoGP machines at Valencia a🍷nd Jerez, Aprilia riders Aleix Espargaro and Andrea Iannone remained on this year's RS-GP.

A design 'revolution' is being made for t💙he 2020 Aprilia, but the new machine won't be seen on track until next year, leaving Espargaro to spend the recent tests "trying different electronic configurations, s▨et-ups and ideas.

"But we cannot improve more w🌱ith the bike we have now, so a revolution ⛦was necessary and I can't wait for the new bike," Espargaro said.

What does Espargaro know so far abo🎐ut the 2020 machi🌸ne?

"Man♔y things. I talked with Romano [Albesiano] and I also saw CAD [drawings] of the new bike. The ideas are good and everything looks promising.

"The engine 🃏is different. The chassis is different, the electronics, the position of the ri🏅der... A small difference everywhere, but everywhere is different.

"This is also why the tests [at Valencia and Jerez] with th💛is bike have no big meaning, because if the ride🧸r position changes [on the new bike] everything will change - the geometry, the setting, everything.

"We know where we want to go [with the concept of the new bike] butꦬ then we will see how gꦚood the engineers are at putting this [into practice] because it's not easy. I can't wait."

In terms of the timescale for the new bike, Espargaro expects one 2020 machine will be ready for each rider at the Sepang tests, hopefully with a shakedown-style systems chec🐻k before leaving Europe at the end of January.

"I don’t know if in Malaysia w♋e will receive the full version of the ne🐓w engine, but part of the engine is already very different," Espargaro said.

"The plan is to receive at least one RS-GP 2020 [for each rider] in Malaysia in February and I can't wait,𝓡 the bike looks promising, very🤪 different.

"We're trying the maximum and, if it's possible, we'll try the bike [for a shakedꦜown] at an airport or whatever 🍸before we leave Europe. But we are in the limit with the time.

"Anyway, to have one bike [each] is already g🥂ood. I don’t need two bike💞s for the first test, I think to do back-to-back tests with the old bike at the first test is quite good. It's also interesting.

"Obviousl🎃y to have three bikes [one 2019, two 2020] would be the best thing because then you can try the old bike the first day and after that the [new bikes].

"So then you can compare the t🌸wo new bikes with different settings and you are a lot quicker to try new things. But it is how it is, so let's try to be 🧸positive!"

Since Aprilia and KTM are eligible for technical concessions, Espargaro confirmed that he will ride in both the Shakedown and Official tests at Sepang next year. The concessions also mꦦean Aprilia's engine design can be changed during the season, meaning there is less pressure to have a full 2020 engine readyꦚ for Sepang.

Aprilia finished sixth and laܫst in this year's constructors' championship, although Iannone m𓂃atched the RS-GP's best result of sixth, at Phillip Island, and briefly led the race.

Espargaro qualified fifth at Aragon, where he took his season-best finish of seventh and was higher in the riders' standings with 1💛4th overall (63 points) compared to Iannone's 16th (43 points).

Espargaro and Iannone were 13th and 14♐th fastest respectively at this week's final test of the year at Jerez.