Bradley Smith reckons engine performance tweaks have significantly improved his Aspar Aprilia 125GP machine after a successful test in Estoril this week. His Spanish team ran different engine configurations during the Portugal test as the British teenager ended fourth quickest overall. And despite finishing a massive 1.3s adrift of dominant Aspar Aprilia team-mate Julian Simon, [...]
Blusens Aprilia Team Manager Ricard Jové has recruited Spanish youngster Esteve Rabat to ride alongside Scott Redding this year and the team’s preparations for the 2009 World Championship are going well. After another successful preseason test at Estoril earlier this week the team move on to the forthcoming Jerez and Qatar dates in good spirits, [...]
Aspar having finished a day early, left only 2 brits left on track. 1. Andrea Iannone (Aprilia) 1:45,9692. Sandro Cortese (Derbi) 1:46,4743. Pol Espargaro (Derbi) 1:46,8464. Esteve Rabat (Aprilia) 1:47,2315. Joan Olive (Derbi) 1:47,2446. Scott Redding (Aprilia) 1:47,5207. Randy Krummenacher (Aprilia) 1:47,6188. Takaaki Nakagami (Aprilia) 1:47,6479. Efren Vasquez (Aprilia) 1:47,70510. Jonas Folger (Aprilia) 1:47,88111. Maverick [...]
Danny Webb survived a pre-season scare when he crashed his new 2009 Aprilia 125GP machine on the second day of testing in Estoril yesterday (Monday).The British rider, who claimed a career best result of fifth at last year’s Estoril race, crashed his DeGraaf Aprilia at Turn Four but luckily escaped injury with just a month [...]
DeGraaf Grand Prix Aprilia’s Danny Webb is raring to go ahead of his first test of 2009, which takes place from this Sunday in Portugal. The Briton has a new version of the factory Aprilia RSA at his disposal and, after a handful of laps at the official team presentation at Assen, has high hopes [...]