How Aprilia reached MotoGP’s summit: ‘Ideas come from people that are not shy’
Aprilia’s RS-GP has utterly dominated the start of 2026, so how did MotoGP’s smallest manufacturer get here and what does Ducati need to do to close the gap?
MotoGP is at Sachsenring for the Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland, and Mat Oxley will be taking your questions about all the big talking points.
It’s a circuit Marc Márquez likes, having won every race he’s contested at the Sachsenring since 2010, but he hasn’t scored victory in MotoGP since COTA in April. Valentino Rossi won last time out to drag himself back into the title race, but his weekend has been hampered by reliability problems.
It’s the last MotoGP before it takes a month’s break ahead of the Czech GP in August.
Our MotoGP reporter Mat Oxley will answer your questions from the paddock, simply post in the comments below.
Aprilia’s RS-GP has utterly dominated the start of 2026, so how did MotoGP’s smallest manufacturer get here and what does Ducati need to do to close the gap?
Aprilia rider Marco Bezzecchi is dominating the 2026 MotoGP season with the same quiet, truculent self-assurance that has always made him impossible to ignore, and even harder to interview
The first Brazilian MotoGP round in 22 years was characterised by a track that was falling apart, not that Bezzecchi and Aprilia seemed to mind
These are happy days for Aprilia, which leads the MotoGP constructors' championship for the first time in its history. And there’s no one better to tell its story than team manager Paolo Bonora, who joined Aprilia in 2002 to do pioneering electronics work on the Cube MotoGP bike