Aprilia says its ambition for the 2026 MotoGP season is not a \u201csecret\u201d after winning multiple races in 2025.<\/p>\n
The Noale factory ended the most recent MotoGP<\/a> season \u2013 which marked 10 years since it re-entered the class as a factory team with the original RS-GP in the final year of the championship\u2019s Bridgestone era \u2013 with three race wins and third place in the championship for factory rider Marco Bezzecchi<\/a>, and with an additional win for Trackhouse’s Raul Fernandez<\/a>.<\/p>\n This success came in contrast to the fortunes of Aprilia\u2019s star signing for 2025, Jorge Martin<\/a>, whose title defence year saw him complete only four races of the 22 held.<\/p>\n However, it is the success that is the focus of Aprilia Racing<\/a> CEO Massimo Rivola when considering the 2025 season with respect to what it means for the manufacturer\u2019s 2026 ambitions.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was an extremely thrilling season that we experienced under two aspects,\u201d said Rivola.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cOn one hand, there were Jorge\u2019s [Martin] injuries, particularly serious, and on the other, Marco\u2019s [Bezzecchi] unstoppable growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a season characterised by important numbers, including more than 400 points in the Manufacturers\u2019 Championship, and one that lets us look forward to 2026 without making any secret of our goal: to battle for the title.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d also like to thank Trackhouse MotoGP Team who contributed with their results to our technical and competitive growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe know that our rivals are strong, but our desire to improve, cultivated thanks to Fabiano\u2019s [Sterlacchini, Aprilia Racing Technical Director] work and palpable in the air throughout Noale, will sustain us through a 2026 season as protagonists from the start.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe can\u2019t wait to get to Sepang to test the RS-GP26 which must be born as a winning bike.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Aprilia was perhaps the standout manufacturer at the post-race MotoGP test in Valencia on 18 November, with a new chassis for Jorge Martin<\/a> and a new fairing<\/a> tried by both Martin and Marco Bezzecchi, while Raul Fernandez topped the test with the bike he ended the season on<\/a>.<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aprilia says its ambition for the 2026 MotoGP season is not a \u201csecret\u201d after winning multiple races in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[10669,64,63,5744,10732,806,805,803,804,13147,85,113427],"class_list":{"0":"post-301639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-aprilia-racing","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-jorge-martin","12":"tag-marco-bezzecchi","13":"tag-motor","14":"tag-motor-sports","15":"tag-motosport","16":"tag-motosports","17":"tag-raul-fernandez","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-trackhouse-motogp-team"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301639","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=301639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}