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?
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Malaysia: Marc Márquez overcomes a six-place grid penalty to win at Sepang as Valentino Rossi crashes out of the lead.
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Pukehoke, race one: Shane van Gisbergen receives a 5sec penalty during this thrilling race, only to go on and beat title rival Scott McLaughlin to victory by 5.5sec.
Texas: Kevin Harvick books his place in the season finale at Homestead as he leads Ryan Blaney in an overtime dash to the chequered flag.
Goiânia (in Portuguese): Felipe Fraga cuts Daniel Serra’s lead by winning the penultimate race in Goiâna.
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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