This Thursday it was made official that the current second place in the Moto2 World Championship, the Japanese Ai Ogura, will jump to MotoGP and he will not do so with Honda, who sponsored his start through Team Honda Asia. He will be a Trackhouse Aprilia rider to partner with Raúl Fernández.
Ogura admitted that “if I can make a step in MotoGP with Honda it would be the best but I also have to think about the future and my own situation and that is my decision. Yes, it is based on performance, Aprilia is more competitive than Honda today.
It just so happened that Aprilia almost wiped the slate clean for 2025. Only Raúl Fernández, and only until Silverstone did he make his 2024 RS-GP debut at the Trackhouse, knew about Aprilia. The remaining three Jorge Martín and Marco Bezzecchi on the official Aprilia and Ai Ogura will be debutants with it. An even more important piece than ever will be tester Lorenzo Savadori.
“With Martin and Bezzecchi coming from Ducati, we will surely have new information to work on. But it is also true that, in these situations, there is also the other side of the coin, because we will lose some ‘safe’ performances, he recently commented. Masimo Rivola to Sky Sport.
Aleix Espargaró, il Capitano of the Aprilia project from 2017 to this time, seeks to leave the best possible legacy to his ‘brother from another mother and another father’, Jorge Martin: “I understand that if there is something so revolutionary, which is not between now and the end of the year, maybe Jorge Martín will try it in the test in Valencia, I will not try it, but I am here to help. Next year , my dream is for Aprilia and Jorge to win the World Championship, everyone knows that, I will not hide it, even if I go to Honda, so I will do everything possible from here to the end. . of the year to leave his is the best inheritance.”
Jorge Martín is currently focused on winning the MotoGP world title with Pramac Ducati and is not yet thinking about his future with Aprilia, but he can’t help but look at what Espargaró is doing here. “I don’t want to think about that, I haven’t gotten into that topic yet, but it’s true that I’m keeping an eye on it. Always seeing Aleix set the track record at Silverstone with three or four tenths, gives me motivation, because I already know next year’s bike should definitely be shiny. maybe I can give them that little extra point.”
Source: La Verdad
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