“That tells you that Aprilia were not going all-out for Quartararo,” Crash’s Peter McLaren said on our podcast.“It doesn’t sound like a ‘we are going all-out to get this guy’ kind of a pay packet.Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinales make up the Aprilia duo, with Miguel Oliveira and Raul Fernandez at Trackhouse.
All four riders are out-of-contract at the end of this year, leaving Aprilia with big decisions to make. “They have said publicly the same as KTM, that ‘we want to keep the riders that we’ve got now’,” McLaren reported.“ goes on to say, in preseason at Sepang, that he has to be ready to react. “‘If someone takes one of our riders, I have to be ready to go to the market, know what’s going on, and get someone else in’.“He made it clear, why he wants to keep four riders, is the stability.“You usually only see a factory team change one rider at a time.“That fits with the names that are already signed. Bagnaia, Quartararo…"“The second rider? It depends how they are performing," McLaren reported.“Then Vinales did great in Portimao.“They have got a lot of options at Aprilia.
“Look at Ducati. When was the last time they didn’t have an Italian rider? They’ve always had one Italian in the factory team.“If you are Bastianini, we don’t know what will happen with this ride.“Then what is the pull factor from Aprilia? “How much do Aprilia want another rider compared to the guys they’ve got?”“But, now that it’s Quartararo, that actually has a big impact on Martin potentially staying with Ducati.“The ties of him being Italian.
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