Davide Brivio aware of factory ‘danger’ in Ai Ogura MotoGP deal

Davide Brᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚivio: "Of course, there is some danger in this decision, as an Independent team..."

Ai Ogura
Ai Ogura

Davide Brivio has a proven reputation for picking future MotoGP stars.

The Italian previously gave multiple race winners 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Maverick Vinales and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Rins as well as 2020 world champion Joan Mir༺ their premier-class debuts while 🦋running the Suzuki project.

Now team principal of Trackhouse, the Italian has selecte💎d Moto2 title contend༺er Ai Ogura for a place at the satellite Aprilia team in 2025.

Brivio emphasised that signing a rookie is always 🍎seen as a multi-year project, with no expectations ꦚin year one.

But, compared to the past, there’s now an added ‘dang𒊎er’.

That because if Ogura - or team-mate Raul Fernandez - delivers on the potential Brivio sees in them, factory teams will target the Trackhou🍰se rid🐠ers.

“It’s not easy to have a rookie in a team because we know next year we have to spend one year without expecting a🦹nything,” Brivio said.

“Just let him [Ogura🏅] enjoy, let him make experience. And then you try to see if you can pick up some ‘flash’. 

"Maybe o🦋ne Free Practice that has been good, one qualifying maybe, n♛ot so bad.

“You try to understand, to pick up signs along the way. A🤡nd then in the second or third years you try to make something.”

“Of course, there is some da♛nger in this decision, as an Independent team,” Brivio continued.

“Because the situation is different. At the time [we signed Vinales, Rins and Mir] we were a [Suzuki] factory team tryi𒊎ng to develop factory riders for the future.

“Now we are an Independent team and there is the dan⛦ger then that if he would b𓃲e good, maybe in 2027 somebody will try to steal [him from] us.

“OK, we will try to make him happy, and we 🌠know it is a medium-term programme.🅰 I know the risk.

“We will try to create a good environment around him, the most 🅘important thing is to try to continue to have a competitive bike and to convince Raul and Ai to stay with us as long as possible.

“Even if it is a big challenge because w�🦋�e know when a factory team calls, normally they answer. But, OK, that’s a challenge!”

Og༒ura could be one of three rookies on next year's MཧotoGP grid with Fermin Aldeguer due to be confirmed at Gresini and Somkiat Chantra tipped for LCR.

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