The Spaniard took Aprilia’s first victory of the season, and second ever in MotoGP,🍌 after charging from the twel💎fth on the grid.

Espargaro stalked Ducati’s reigning world champion Francesco Bagnaia for 15 laps before defying rain drops to dive for victory with a few corners t𒈔o go.

“I always said Aleix is the one with the biggest balls in the paddock!” Rivola told MotoGP.com. “The wa💝y he overtook Pecco at the end, in that part of the track, you don’t do that normally. But I’m glad he did𓃲 it!

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“The race of Aleix was really impressive and the overta🦄ke is the picture of his character and how much he wanted to win this race.

🎉“With a different qualifying I think we should have more Aprilias on the p𓄧odium, but I cannot say I’m disappointed with three Aprilias in the top five.

“We are all very happy. This🅺 is our track. I think Aprilia is the best bike here. We were super-fast with Aleix on Friday with almost 0.7s gap to second place. You don’t se⭕e that often.

“Today Maverick and Al👍eix were fastest in terms of lap time and we saw how fast Miguel is when the cꦯonditions become tricky.

“It’s a big reward to all the people at Noale who worked hard﷽ in the summer break.

“Now we are to a level where you need to find details and we knew there was a small༒ step from the upgrades we brought here, but that can make the difference in the current MotoGP, where finding milliseconds is important.”

Espargaro is now up🔯 to sixth in the riders’ world championship, with twelve rounds to go, with A⭕prilia is third in the constructors’ standings.