Jerez test, wind tunnel work as Aprilia signs off most successful MotoGP season
Test rider 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lorenzo Savadori joined Ducati’s Michele Pirro on track for two days of private testing in Spain, completing 134 laps in mixed weather conditions, ‘working especially on new electronics configur❀ations’ for 2023.
Meanwhile, factory race riders Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinales flew to Cologne for a d🌃ay o🍎f wind tunnel testing, where they were also joined by Aprilia’s new satellite RNF team riders Miguel Oliveira and Raul Fernandez.
Espargaro, who took Aprilia’s first premier-class victory plus five other podiums🌞, and Vinales, who claimed three further rostrums, ‘worked on the first 2023 prototype, the characteristics of which will be analysed and refined over the winter break’.
Aerodynamics is already anꦆ area where Aprilia is🅘 seen as being one of the best in MotoGP, with its rivals now starting to experiment with the innovative ‘ground effect’ lower fairing shape.
For Oliveira, an impre🍃ssive fourth faste💮st on his Aprilia debut at Valencia, and Fernandꦫez the focus was on optimising the𝕴ir aerodynamic position on the bike.
While RNF will race 2022-spec machines next season, Espargaro🌌 and Vinales will make their debut on the 2023 Aprilia prototype during the official Sepang test next February.
Will RNF get 2023 Aprilia upgrades?
RNF team manager Wilco Ze🃏elenberg said it is possible the satellite team will receive some 2023 upgrades during next year, but much will depend on whether the parts are in🅷terchangeable with the 2022 design.
“All that d🧜epends on how the 2023 Aprilia will be,” said the Dutchman. “They built a fantastic bike this season and this is the bike we will start with. But there are no limits to improve our bikes as well [during next season].
“I think we also need to b💧e realistic, to see how big the change will be from the 2022 to 2023. Because if they change completely the whole bike - and I d🍸on't have this information - then it will be not so realistic that we will get the new [parts] straight away.
“But if it's just small updates on cowlings or stuff that we are able to change then this is of course a negotiable and they really want us to perform in the best 🔯wa🍌y possible.”
Other fact🦋ories are also planning private outings, without their race riders, before the end of this year - including, according to , a MotoGP debu🧸t for Pedro Acosta on the KTM RC16 at Jerez this weekend.
Peter has been in the paddock for 2ꦏ0 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at th🙈e forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
