SENT TO MILAN. Competing where dare the gods of cycling. And try to win, even if the challenge was launched a year earlier than the schedule and for now the profile must necessarily be low. The Aprilia back to race in MotoGP, the top competition world of motorcycling, after eleven years since. It was 2004 when he left the stage of the class, just before it enters the Piaggio group. We return with the ambition to go “beyond the maximum already reached,” to remain at the words of the President and CEO of Piaggio, Roberto Colaninno, who dares: “We are so arrogant that we want to win.” A new technological frontier, therefore, synthesized by the same entrepreneur with a slogan copied, revisiting it, from the title of a Kubrick film that made the history of cinema: “3001 Aprilia in space.” 6 in the futuristic study of the citadel of Sky, in Milan, where he goes on stage presentation of all activities racing brand Noale – MotoGP, precisely, Superbike and Superstock 1000 FIM Cup – those four words take on the meaning of a liturgy, even before a commitment for 70 employees (plus fifteen external) who work in the Venetian. Because “the boss” asks his “to do something more challenging, take the grasslands of a great technology that is not there yet.”
The prize list. That the choice is brave, risky and together, there is no doubt, but it reflects the character of a racing department of the most successful ever. Aprilia has in fact been able to conquer in his racing history – 1992 to 2014 – less than 54 world titles, 28 of them since 2006, and has achieved success in well 294 Grands Prix, besides 50 in Superbike. At the wheel of his bike made their debut, competed and triumphed, among others, Max Biaggi, Valentino Rossi, Loris Capirossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Casey Stoner and Marc Marquez, not pinchi any dots. And then everything can leave foresee that, after the big return, satisfaction will come to rain as in the past?
To experience. Here, if the wishes are one thing, reality must be invited to go with feet of lead. When Guido Meda – the voice that will tell us again the 2015 MotoGP season, “purchased” by the Murdoch television group Mediaset depriving – called near himself Eng. Albesiano Romano, head of Aprilia Racing, the “distinctions” are more necessary than ever: “Our future goes to the MotoGP, ‘says firmly,” but we left earlier than intended to shorten the time arrival performance top . ” The problems that emerged in the Sepang test are not easy to solve, “but we are learning so much.” And then, the inevitable question, realistically what can be the goal to be achieved with the new bike RS-GP? “Having said that it is important to accumulate experience,” Albesiano always responds, “we would be pleased if in the second half of the season we could compete for positions around the tenth or so.”
Gresini team manager. If Ducati was, until now, the only Italian to participate in the World, the return of Aprilia is accompanied by the decision to entrust Fausto Gresini, who had defended the colors of Noale for a year in his driving career, management team in Grand Prix. Tricolor more than that …
“It’s the first time that a satellite team joins with a Factory and will be important to participate in this development,” the words of the “Greso”. “It will not be an easy year, but there will be the enthusiasm of the Italians. We are eager to start these new tests, which will be essential to develop the bike of 2016, and be ready for the first Grand Prix (in Doha, Qatar, March 29, ed ). It will be a continuous phase of development and we will do our best. This is the first prototype of a motorcycle home GP Aprilia and other developments will follow. You will see news from race to race. We have to wait half evolving. “
On this occasion it was announced that partnership with SAP, a world leader in applications software companies. Technology for technology: so want Colaninno.
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