Aprilia

Aprilia feels its MotoGP rivals are finally within reach heading into the 2021 season; 'we shouldn't have any real weak point'.

Aprilia Racing CEO Massimo Rivola says giving MotoGP race seat to Lorenzo Savadori was down to 'company reasons', but hopes Bradley Smith will decide to remain as their test and wild-card rider. Confirms Andrea Iannone cannot be a test rider.

Aprilia weighing-up Satellite team alongside move to its own Factory MotoGP grid places for 2022.

Aprilia officially presents its 2021 RS-GP MotoGP machine, confirms Lorenzo Savadori has been chosen over Bradley Smith as team-mate to Aleix Espargaro.

Not often does a rider turn down the opportunity to join a MotoGP team, but Marco Bezzecchi did just that as he looks to win the Moto2 title in 2021.

MotoGP team boss Fausto Gresini has died in hospital following a lengthy battle against Covid-related complications.

'HRC would like to thank Fausto for his years of collaboration as a rider, a team owner, a partner and as a competitor.'

The latest official update on the condition of MotoGP team principal Fausto Gresini paints a worrying picture, with his 'clinical picture critical' after 'complications'.

Aprilia opened its 2021 MotoGP track activities with a three-day private test at Jerez, where Aleix Espargaro and Lorenzo Savadori continued development work on the revised RS-GP.

Fausto Gresini's ongoing battle against 'severe respiratory failure due to the complications of Covid' has seen the MotoGP team manager overcome a 'complicated' week and return to a more 'stable' condition.

UPDATE: Bradley Smith's manager Bob Moore has told Crash.net they are still in discussions with Aprilia...

The cancellation of the Sepang MotoGP tests meant Cal Crutchlow's return to Yamaha, and debut as a Factory test rider, has been pushed back until the remaining official tests in Qatar.

MotoGP team boss Fausto Gresini is continuing to make slow progress in his recovery from Covid-related respiratory problems.

The 2021 MotoGP World Championship is looming but which riders head into the new season knowing they have something more to prove...

Andrea Dovizioso has reiterated that, while he continues to seek a MotoGP return, it would only be with 'projects of a certain type' and not 'at all costs'.

Leon Camier is relishing the chance to take on his new Honda WorldSBK managerial role despite the pain of giving up his racing career

Dr Nicola Cilloni, overseeing the treatment of MotoGP team boss Fausto Gresini, says that the 59-year-old 's condition is 'still serious' with his lungs 'hit hard by the disease [Covid] and an overlapping infection'.

UPDATE: Sunday's statement by Dr Nicola Cilloni: "Fausto's general clinical conditions are still serious due to the persistence of a Covid-related pneumonia which greatly compromises blood oxygenation, making it necessary to continue mechanical ventilation alongside sedation

The latest update on the condition of MotoGP team boss Fausto Gresini describes continued progress, 'albeit by little steps'.

The departure of Cal Crutchlow (35), Andrea Dovizioso (34) and Tito Rabat (31) means Aleix Espargaro now becomes the second-oldest rider on the MotoGP grid, after Valentino Rossi.

More positive news has emerged from the intensive care unit of the Maggiore Carlo Alberto Pizzardi hospital in Bologna, where MotoGP team boss Fausto Gresini is being treated for severe respiratory problems after contracting Covid in late December.

'Comforting news' emerged over the weekend from the Gresini MotoGP team, during the latest update on the condition of team owner Fausto Gresini.

Fausto Gresini remains on a mechanical ventilator in the intensive care unit of a Bologna hospital as he battles 'severe respiratory insufficiency' caused by Covid 19.

Aprilia's announcement that it will give the second RS-GP race seat, the last remaining place on the 2021 MotoGP grid, to either Bradley Smith or Lorenzo Savadori is sure to add some spice to the team's pre-season testing.