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?
The latest Royal Automobile Club talk show with Steve Parrish. Read Lunch With… Steve Parrish in the July 2018 issue
Motorcycle racer turned TV analyst Steve Parrish joins Motor Sport magazine’s Mat Oxley and Jack Phillips ahead of his evening at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall.
He looks back on how the world of motorcycling has changed since he retired, including recalling the many antics recounted in his new Parrish Times autobiography, what’s changed at the Isle of Man TT and what it was like to be Barry Sheene‘s team-mate.
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