Aprilia’s racing manager Paolo Bonora says the brand must have “an open mind” with its 2025 factory MotoGP line-up as they are “coming from the best b🤡ike”.

The Noale brand’s works team will undergo its firℱst complete line-up change since 2017, with reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi joining the fold.

Both riders come with their sole premier class experience being of Ducati machinery, while the🍌 only constant in its stable will be Raul Fernandez at Trackhouse, who will be joined by ro🔯okie Ai Ogura.

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At the en🧸d of the 2024 season, Bonora told MotoGP’s official website that it will have𒐪 to have an open approach to bike development and rider feedback from Martin and Bezzecchi.

“It’s going to be a very challenging year for us, because we’ll have two fast, young and very talenꦿted riders,” he said.

“There’s no doubt about it. T🌠he whole team is excited, and we’ll have to be very pragmatic to understand what thei⛎r demands will be and have an open mind in understanding that they’re probably coming from the best bike on the grid.

“We’ll have to improve to get that performance.”

Neither rider was able to speak about their first test of the RS-GP in Barcelona last month, but CEO Massimo Rivola noted that their feedback was more posi꧟tive than expected.

Aꦕprilia proved to be the only manufacturer to beat Ducati in 2024, after Maverick Vinales - who joins Tech3 KTM next year - won the Americas Grand Prix.

T༒hat was the highlight of the campaign, though, with Aprilia’s form dropping off in the second half of the season to the point that it slid to third in the constructors’ standings behind KTM and Ducati.

Reflecting on the seaso♒n, Bonora added: “We’♛re quite satisfied with the first part of the season.

“We got a lot of podiums and, apart from Duꦍcati, we were the only ones to win a GP.

“We set a lot of goals at the beginning of the year and we reached them. We proba꧙bly lost som💫ething in the second part.

“When you get to a certain level, it’s more difficult to ta♏ke big steps forward. But we definitely understood why we missed something compared to our rivals.

“We have to improve our data an🎃alysis and respond faster to the comment💃s of the riders during the weekend.

“We know that we need to improve in hard br🐻aking. It’s not about intervening in any 🎃particular area but making progress on our package.”