For the first time since its return to the MotoGP World Championship in 2015, the Italian manufacturer Aprilia will compete as an official team, leaving behind seven seasons in which it has done so as a private team associated with the structure of the sadly deceased, just a year ago, Fausto Gresini.
Despite this evolution, since this will be the Noale factory’s eighth season in the premier class, the Italian team continues to apply for concessions, the system with which the organization has tried, and managed, to match the competition in recent years, so the first objective in 2022 cannot be other than to lose that advantage, being the only team that still enjoys it right now.
The Italian formation will feature this year a pair of Spanish riders, Aleix Espargaró, who is entering his sixth season with the team, which he joined in 2017 from Suzuki; and Maverick Viñales, who after dissolving his contract with Yamaha last summer, made his debut on September 12 at the handlebars of the RS-GP at the Aragón Grand Prix, contesting the last five rounds of the course with his new team.
The RS-GP 2022 presents important novelties in which the Italian manufacturer has been able to work outside the norm that froze the engines due to the pandemic in 2020 for two years, but with aerodynamic and system solutions to lower the motorcycle’s suspension in movement that practically equates to the one presented by Ducati this year, the most advanced.
In 2021 Aprilia completed one of its best seasons since its return to the premier class, also achieving the first podium in MotoGP, a third place in the British Grand Prix at the hands of Aleix.
In its first year as a manufacturer and factory team, the decoration of the new RS-GP maintains the style of recent years, highlighting the particular F1-type spoiler on its front and the black and red colors of the historic manufacturer from Noale.
