{"id":246359,"date":"2025-10-28T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246359\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:03:07","slug":"marco-bezzecchi-aprilia-discovered-many-things-to-work-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246359\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Bezzecchi, Aprilia \u201cdiscovered many things to work on\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/aprilia-racing\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aprilia<\/a> arrived at Sepang hoping the RS-GP would be competitive at a third event in a row, solidifying hopes of a 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> title challenge.<\/p>\n<p>But after winning three of the previous four races, at Mandalika and Phillip Island, Aprilia left Sepang having scored just ten constructors\u2019 points &#8211; versus a perfect 37 in Australia &#8211; the fewest points of any manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew that coming here was going to be a bit more a bit more difficult compared to Phillip Island,\u201d said factory star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/995158\/marco-bezzecchi\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Bezzecchi<\/a>, who finished sixth (Sprint) and eleventh (GP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt much, much better than in the test [ninth], and because of this I&#8217;m quite satisfied.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But of course we still have some work to do, and I think the behaviour of the bike and in general of the weekend is super good for us, because we discovered many things to work on.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already have many ideas. So at the end, of course, the result is not the best, but it&#8217;s part of the process and we will keep working, as always, to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/podium-plus-aprilia.png\"   type=\"image\/png\" alt=\"2025 Malaysian MotoGP: Podium plus Aprilia riders\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.79\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>2025 Malaysian MotoGP: Podium plus Aprilia riders<\/p>\n<p>Bezzecchi said he had &#8220;struggled to find the best way to put all the power on the ground&#8221; early in the weekend, contributing to him missing direct Qualifying 2 access and starting just 14th on the grid.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian added that a wrong front tyre choice, medium rather than soft, for the Grand Prix had also masked his full potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn&#8217;t take the correct choice with the front, but apart from this, I think that I could maybe do a similar performance to yesterday and stay with Bastianini [7th] or di Giannantonio [6th].<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn&#8217;t aim to get the victory, it was unrealistic today, but maybe doing that was the best that I could do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Bezzecchi struggled with the medium front, Trackhouse rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/ol \" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ai Ogura<\/a> chose the soft and finished one place ahead as the top RS-GP rider in tenth.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his lowest scoring weekend since Catalunya, Bezzecchi still holds third in the world championship after Sprint winner Francesco Bagnaia retired with a puncture in the grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>Aprilia meanwhile, takes a reduced 30-point advantage over KTM in the fight to be the runner-up constructor behind Ducati, with only the Portimao and Valencia rounds remaining.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aprilia arrived at Sepang hoping the RS-GP would be competitive at a third event in a row, solidifying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[18009,10669,64,63,10732,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-246359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-aprilia","9":"tag-aprilia-racing","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-marco-bezzecchi","13":"tag-motor","14":"tag-motor-sports","15":"tag-motosport","16":"tag-motosports","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}