On August 30, Aprilia announced the line-up of its satellite team for next season: Miguel Oliveira and Raúl Fernandez. With them, in 2023 the Noale factory will have four MotoGP riders for the first time, a logical evolution, and a necessity, now that Aprilia has stopped being the caboose of MotoGP to start desiring everyone. A full one, read the title, where he is already fighting Aleix Espargaró as a battering ram. The man from Granollers is now third in the championship, 33 points behind leader Fabio Quartararo and three behind Pecco Bagnaia, who just overtook him in the table after his fourth straight win this weekend at Misano.
Aleix Espargaró, Maverick Viñales, Raúl Fernández and Miguel Oliveira will be Aprilia’s line-up for next year and as such are the ones chosen for the “little war” that the Noale factory will maintain with Ducati, the other Italian brand present in MotoGP. Until now, Ducati has monopolized the limelight among the tifosi and the headlines of the transalpine media, a situation that has changed dramatically in recent months and Aprilia is keen to change. A fratricidal duel is served.
And with all the Italian riders that Ducati hired -with Bagnaia, Bastianini, Marini, Bezzecchi and DiGianantonio in their ranks-, Aprilia had no choice but to bet on “foreigners”. An event that those on the “other side” take advantage of to highlight their 360º Italianness. But ultimately this “me more” approach is nothing more than an aesthetic pulse. In races, words are carried by the wind because what gives and takes away excuses is not a tricolor flag or a passport but the checkered flag; that’s the fight worth it.
Source: La Verdad

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