Ha♔ving claimed Aprilia's first podium of the four-stroke MotoGP era, Aleix Espargaro is looking to make it back-to-back rostrums at Aragon this weekend.

The Spanish track has been one of his most successful venues on the RS-GP in the past, mat🍬ching the bike's pre-Silverstone best of sixth place in both 2017 and 2018, plus a seventh in 201🎶9.

"Aragon is a circuit that I like," he confirmed. "💃We are in a good shape now. The bike is working good. Normally in Aragon the bike is always competitive. We have a fresh engine there. So, let’s see.

"Also, it looks like it’s not the favourite circuit of Fabio, so the race will be a little bit slower," added Espargaro, who finished 4.1s from Yamaha's ti🔥tle leader Quartararo at Silverstone, which equates to just 0.2s a lap.

"We have to fight for the podium again, that’s for sure, but this is what I say every week. Finally now I've finished on the podium, so in Aragon I want more. I feel ಞthat we are ready to fight again🐲 for the podium."

The big news for Aprilia heading into Aragon is that new si🅷gning Maverick Vinales will be making his RS-GP alongside Espargaro. The nine time grand prix winner is joining the Italian factory after a mid-season split from Yamaha.

"If somebody at the beginning of the season told you that you will finish with Yamah💝a and go to Aprilia, you will say this is ten steps back, but - obviously the way he finished with Yamaha is not nice - the Aprilia is a competitive bike.

"We are still not on the level of the Yamaha, but we are on the way. I think Maverick will enjoy a lot riding the Aprilia. He will have to adapt beca﷽use it’s completely another story from Yamaha, but as I showed [at Silverstone], the bike is on the way."

While Vinales had his first introdꦯuction to the RS-GP during a two-day test last week, Espargaro has been part of the Aprilia project since 2017.

"One thing is clear. I nev𝔉er tried to adapt the bike to myself. That’s for sure," Espargaro said.

"🔯During these fꦰive years, I always tried to make the bike competitive. Obviously, I said to the engineers what I would like because I was the number one rider and the one who had to develop the bike.

"But Iꦉ always tried to adapt myself to the bike, always trying to stress the bike on the very good points of the bike and tryinꦬg to improve the weaknesses. This has been my job for these five years.

"Since th🎃e arrival of Massimo [Rivola], many things have changed in Noale, the way we work. Many engineers new have come. There is nothing free in this sport. You need to put money. You need to invest. This is what we did.

"The RS-GP21 is the highest on the stability side, due to the dow🙈nforce. Also, the geometry. We changed a little bit also the balance bꦯy changing the engine position.

"So, ma🦂ny things have been done in these last two years. Now we are seeing the results, but this is a consequence of many small things that you have to change during the years."

With the RS-GP's first podium now in the bag, the next🌞 target for Espargaro and Vinales will be to make history as Aprilia's first ever race winner in the 𒆙premier-class.