Marco Bezzecchi's victory in the British MotoGP gave April🦩ia its first grand prix win since COTA last year.

It also helped move the Noale manufacturer up to third in the constructors’ standings, 17 points behind Honda, despite being without star signing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin for all but the Qatar round.

Although Ducati has already broken 135 points clear at the top of the MotoGP constructors’ standings, the other four factories are covered by ju😼st 26 points in the battle to be best of the rest.

“Our goal, of course, is trying to reduce the gap to Ducati and to pass [them],” said Aprilia test rider Lore▨nzo Savadori, currently repla🍎cing the injured Martin.

“So in Noale, we work really hard for this. And I think at the moment we are the second [best] manufacture🍰r in the championship, on the grid. But we need to continue to improve.”

Aprilia name three areas to close gap to Ducati

Aprilia is the only brand other than Ducati with a dry win so far this seas🌟on.

However, Honda has more grand prix podiums courtesy of Johann Zarco winning in the wet at Le Mans then finishiꩵng second to Bezzecchi at Silve🍌rstone.

Yamaha was a dry runner-up at Jerez, alongsi💞de three pole positions for Fa𒀰bio Quartararo, while KTM was denied a second place for Maverick Vinales in Qatar due to a tyre pressure penalty.

Asked how Aprilia plans to close the gap to Ducati, which won 22 ♋grands prix in a row from Jerez 2024-2025, Savadori highlighted three areas:

“In general, we work on the stability, on the braking and also on𝓰 acceleration. So it's trying to improve a bit in these three areas.”

That involves Savadori testing new parts dur✱ing grand prix events, a process that will continue at Aragon this weekend.

“We have some new things on my bike to ♕improve and also on Monday there is a lot of work to do in the test,” he said.

“I can't explain the new things, but something is 🎉simpler to [see] on the bike and something is quite impossible, but especially in the♏ testing we have a big different solution.”

The latest medical update on Martin’s condition suggests he could be absent for another month, even witho💯ut the ongo♉ing contractual stalemate over a 2026 exit clause.

“I hope, and Aprilia hope, Jorge will ♔return soon,” Savadori said of his ongoing race role. “When he 💝is well physically.

“I can't wait to s🐽ee, of course, Jorge riding our bike. At the moment, the program is to replace Jorge, but try new things. So do a race, but also testing in all these races.”

The latest Aprilia developments appear to include a Ducati-style ride-height devic🐼e, which can be ‘booked’ by the rider on the 🤡entry to a corner, then lowers ‘automatically’ on the exit.

Bezzecchi's victory moved the Italian to seven🍌th in the riders' world championship with LCR Honda's Johann Zarco (fifth) the only non-Ducati ahead of him.