DÉBUT IN OFFICIAL TESTS FOR THE NEW 2016 APRILIA RS-GP
ROMANO ALBESIANO: “THREE Crucial AND Constructive DAYS TO Develop THE PROJECT”
Losail (Qatar), 4 March 2016 – 3 days of tests on the Losail track in Qatar marked the official début of the 2016 Aprilia RS-GP 2016, the brand new bike that Aprilia Racing will use to compete in the top category of Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing which, correct right here on this track, will start off on 20 March.
For the official Aprilia Racing Team Gresini riders, Alvaro Bautista and Stefan Bradl, these had been quite critical days. On the one hand, they are acquiring to know a fully new bike. On the other hand, they should instantly resolve the inevitable increasing pains and make the right choices straight away to reach a strong technical base from which to create and increase efficiency. Besides this, there are several technical information that, being place through their paces for the first time, need to have to be fine-tuned. The very first MotoGP bike ever totally designed and built by Aprilia, starting with the 4-cylinder engine in the exclusive narrow V configuration, confirmed the very good feelings it had already offered the riders straight away: the bike’s dynamic overall performance is decidedly greater than the laboratory bike employed last season. Acknowledged as “a real MotoGP bike”, the Italian machine has lots of area for development, enhancing with every outing and managing, in really tight standings, to place great occasions on the boards, contemplating the fact that this is its first real outing.
The 3 days of the most current IRTA tests, held at evening prior to the racing début, had the 2016 RS-GP machines putting in a total of 210 laps (106 for Bautista, with a fastest time of 1’57.043 and 104 for Bradl with a time of 1’57.340), alternating, particularly on the 1st two days, with frequent stops in pit lane needed by the many modifications that naturally need to have to be made on a newborn bike on testing days.
ROMANO ALBESIANO (Aprilia Racing Manager)
“These three days, and especially nowadays, were really really crucial and positive for us. We did a lot of work, managing in the finish to put in a excellent number of laps with each riders. This is what we need to develop a project that has just taken its first steps. I am fairly happy with the consistency Alvaro achieved in the final outings with a utilized tyre, performance that tends to make me relatively optimistic for the maiden race. Maybe we had been lacking a bit on the quickly lap with each Alvaro and Stefan, but that undoubtedly was not our objective. We are leaving Qatar with a lot of info that we will want to translate into action from now until the race, functioning evening and day if necessary”.
FAUSTO GRESINI (Group Manager)
“The results of the tests are definitely optimistic if we look at how we did – specifically on this final day – with out any miles beneath our belts, with no knowledge on this bike. I like this project a lot and I like the very modest engine. Aprilia Racing did a actually wonderful job and it is a huge step forward compared to final year’s bike. This is a fledgling project and these are the initial real miles that we’ve ridden, so it is clear that we’ll require time to sort out a lot of small issues ahead of we can commence to create it to be capable to actually push”.
ALVARO BAUTISTA
“Basically these have been the very first actual three days with this bike given that the private tests final week were used to sort out the bike and confirm that almost everything was working appropriately. Now we are obtaining to know the bike, thanks in component to the many tiny changes that we have regularly made to see how it would react. These days I gained confidence and we were able to lap a lot and get a extremely optimistic feeling simply because the more laps I took the more I improved, becoming more and a lot more comfortable with the bike. This is a extremely important aspect simply because we are still far from one hundred% and we have a lot of room for improvement. We are on the right path. The bike is lighter, it has greater traction, it is more steady and it is a lot far more nimble in direction modifications. We need to continue on this path, even in the very first races where we’ll have the opportunity to continue functioning on comprehension and development”.
STEFAN BRADL
“The last day was actually productive for us. I was in a position to place in a lot of laps without having running into these small troubles that usually slow down work on a fully new bike. I also got in numerous sessions with a several laps in a row to prepare for the race weekend and every little thing worked rather well. We focused above all on the front end of the bike to enhance the feeling, managing to uncover a few positive aspects, but unfortunately we didn’t have the time to operate on the rear, so we’ll start off from there during on race weekend. We are on the proper path. Now we just require to remain calm and preserve operating this way”.
APRILIA RACING Team GRESINI – Test MotoGP Qatar (Business Press Releases)
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