{"id":224751,"date":"2025-10-19T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224751\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T14:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:30:10","slug":"why-trackhouse-felt-pressure-from-its-nascar-success-ahead-of-first-motogp-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/224751\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trackhouse felt pressure from its NASCAR success ahead of first MotoGP win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trackhouse<\/a>\u00a0MotoGP boss Davide Brivio joked that it was \u201cfeeling pressure\u201d from the American squad\u2019s success in NASCAR after achieving a debut win at the Australian Grand Prix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Raul Fernandez<\/a> led the majority of the race at Phillip Island from fourth on the grid, taking Trackhouse\u2019s satellite Aprilia RS-GP to victory lane by 1.4s.<\/p>\n

It marked the first victory in MotoGP for the North Carolina-based squad, which entered the championship just last year after taking over the operations of the erstwhile RNF Racing team.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the achievement, Brivio said the result underscored Trackhouse\u2019s growing ambition to regularly compete against the series\u2019 leading factory teams.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t really start from scratch, to be honest, because that was the RNF team, of course [that we inherited]. With Trackhouse, the new management and an American company, we try to put our vision into the project,\u201d he told MotoGP.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have great support from Trackhouse, from [team owner] Justin [Marks].\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea is to try to challenge, first of all, the other independent team [and then] challenge the factory team. These results also give us more motivation to [achieve] this target, to [reach] this ambition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Raul <\/p>\n

Raul Fernandez, Trackhouse Racing<\/p>\n

Photo by: Gold and Goose Photography \/ LAT Images \/ via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Trackhouse has already won six races in the Cup Series this year, with Ross Chastain in the Coca-Cola 600, and former Supercars star Shane van Gisbergen proving almost unbeatable on road courses on his step up to NASCAR\u2019s top division.<\/p>\n

Brivio joked that Trackhouse\u2019s MotoGP squad was facing pressure to emulate the success of its NASCAR arm.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m also happy we won, because we won (six) races in the NASCAR championship, we needed to do something also in the MotoGP,\u201d he said in a light-hearted manner. \u201cWe felt the pressure, and here we are, we’ve done [it], so I’m very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aprilia Racing boss Massimo Rivola expressed his delight at Trackhouse\u2019s maiden MotoGP victory, saying he had anticipated such a moment ever since the Noale-based brand expanded to four bikes in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said from the beginning, the first year with Razlan [Razali\u2019s RNF team], I’m looking forward to the day where our satellite team will beat us – and today is the day,\u201d he told the media at Phillip Island.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey all have the bike, the full official bikes. With Davide, we know each other since a lot [of time].\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe work quite closely and speak about riders in particular, and obviously speak about people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it’s a sort of double satisfaction for me to see Raul winning and obviously seeing that Aprilia was quite fast.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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