This was confirmed by Massimo Rivola, CEO of the racing department of the Noale brand, in a statement to Motorsport.com: “If we receive interesting offers that can make the project grow, we will value it.”
At the gates of the first round of the season on European territory, this weekend in Portimao, the rider market is hectic in the MotoGP World Championship. And I could also the teams.
In this sense, Aprilia does not close the door to the possibility of assisting a client team, a circumstance that would lead it to increase its quota of motorcycles on the grid, from two to four units. However, for this to happen, something essential must happen, taking into account the commitments made between private structures and factories.
The number of motorcycles on the grid will not exceed the current 24 in any case. In this way, the only possibility for Aprilia to make this second formation a reality would be for one of the independent teams to change supplier.
If we take into account the current alliances and the contracts in force, the logic leads us to think that the one who could have more numbers to change the scene is the RNF, until last year Sepang Racing Team (SRT), and that Razlan Razali refounded after losing the support of Petronas and the Sepang circuit suddenly.
Once the slam of the oil company as the main sponsor was confirmed, Razali moved to secure the bikes for this 2022. He signed a new contract with Yamaha, although the manufacturer of the tuning forks preferred to be linked for only one year (2022), and from there see how things evolved.
Rivola, at the same time, also assured that his intention is to renew both Aleix Espargaró and Maverick Viñales, the current lineup. The former, who in Argentina gave the manufacturer the first victory in its history in the MotoGP era, stated two weeks ago, in Austin, that after a first approach the positions were “very far”, a circumstance that had left him “very sad “.
