Sepang-. The Italian, who apart from the Asturian also worked together with other riders such as Felipe Massa and Pastor Maldonado, will be in charge of the physical set-up of Viñales, who in any case happens to be one of the fittest members of the grid MotoGP.
Maganzi, who accompanied Fernando Alonso during the two seasons in which the man from Oviedo was proclaimed world champion, in 2005 and 2006, with Renault, has already worked alongside Maverick Viñales these days in the first collective tests of 2022, in Malaysia.
“Yes, we have decided together with his agent to form a working group to get the best out of Maverick. Fabrizio has lived through Fernando’s winning time at Renault. He has a lot of experience as a trainer”, recognized Massimo Rivola, Aprilia’s top manager in MotoGP, to Motorsport.com this Sunday in a talk held in the paddock at the Sepang circuit.
Rivola arrived at Aprilia with a view to 2019 after a decade at Ferrari, in which he established a friendly relationship with Alonso that is still valid today. In the last two years he has been recruiting different technicians from F1 for Noale’s house.
From his position as CEO of the racing division of the Noale brand, the engineer has set out to ensure that Viñales focuses solely and exclusively on driving as fast as he can, without anything or anyone distracting him.
For this he has also signed a sports psychologist. “Maverick has been very brave. With the arrival of these two pieces, he wants to try to prevent the things that conditioned him in the past from being repeated. I come from a world [F1] in which these practices are very common”, Rivola added.
“We want to place Maverick in the best possible predisposition so that he is only focused on driving. We do not want him to have distractions of any kind,” continues the executive, one of the main promoters of the Catalan’s hiring, once his break with Yamaha, in the middle of last year.
“Now, in the test, it’s easy [not to lose focus]. But then the races will come, the paddock will open. You have to try to make sure that he is focused correctly. He is the first to want it,” concluded the Italian.
