A major setback to Aprilia has been pinpointed - and it is in addition to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin’s trouble.

The MotoGP champion Martin was Aprilia’s star s🍬igning but his title defence is already in ruin due to a spate of injuries.

He first injured a delicate bone🔯 in the hand which ruled him out of the first few rounds, but upon returning in Qatar, a scary crash l✅eft him with fractured ribs and a collapsed lung.

Yet, the unfortunate Aprilia have been remindဣed another another signifi🐎cant blow they have absorbed.

“L🌜osing Romano Albesiano was a big thing,” TNT Sports’ Neil Hodgson said.

“He was the leader of the project. He was the Gigiꦬ Dall’Igna of Aprilia.

“He’d been there a l𝓀ong time. Maybe that se🗹nt a shockwave.”

Albesiano swapped his job as Apri🦋lia’s technical director to join Honda, where his influence has seemingly already been felt this year.

Honda’s rise in the right d🌃irection is in contrast to the difficulties faced by Albesiano’s former employers 🦩in Italy.

Fabiano Sterlacchini replaced Albesiano at Aprilia, joining after a s✨tint at KTM.

Jorge Martin’s first Aprilia feedback was good

The highest-placed Aprilia ride🔥r in the MotoGP standing🦋s is Marco Bezzecchi in ninth.

But it’s not all doom and gloom for Aprilia.

“Martin was h𓆏appy with the bike,” Sylvain Guintoli told TNT Sports about the champion’s first lap♌s since leaving Ducati.

“His first comment in Qatar was, in Italian, ‘the froꦅnt end is scary!’

“As in, scary good!

“Even though he was in pain and couldnꦚ’t ride the bike as he want🦹ed.

“He wa🧸s full of praise and it’s such a shame he cannot express himself on the bike, and we haven’t seen it so far.

“Massim๊o Rivola knows that. That’s why 🅺there is no pressure.”

Martin’s efforts in Qatar, before his crash in the grand prix, were hailed. It offers ho▨pe to Aprilia for his eventual comeback.

🔥“It was incredible, I thought, what he was doing,” H🍰odgson said.

“I genu🔯inely mean that, I am not just being positive because the poor lad has had three horrendous crashes.

“ꦑI was shocked, so shocked. In qualifying he was full of adrenaline, trying to get a tow…

“To actually pass Francesco Bagnaia in the sprint race? No-one thought that was pos🙈sible.

“He looked r🔯eally good. ♔He has to take time off, rest, then start again.”

In Martin’s absence, fellow e✅x-Ducati rider Bezzecchi has been unable to get the best from his new package this season.

“If Jorge was there, he’d have someone to com♋pare to. To look at their data,” Guintoli said.

“They wouldﷺ both make each other better, and that drags the project forward.

“It would motivate both sides of the garage.

“They are struggling a bit.”