While other factories were on track wit♋h prototype versions of their 2020 MotoGP machines at Valencia and Jerez, Aprilia riders Alei🌞x Espargaro and Andrea Iannone remained on this year's RS-GP.

A design 'revo🔴lution' is being made for the 2020 Aprilia, but&nbs🐎p;the new machine won't be seen on track until next year, leaving Espargaro to spend the recent tests "trying different electronic configurations, set-ups and ideas.

"But we cannot improve more wi🌃th the bike we have now, so a revolution was necessary and I can't wait f🌜or the new bike," Espargaro said.

What does Espargaro know so far about the 20🌄20 machine?

"Many things. I talked withꦦ Romano [Albesiano] and I also saw CAD [drawings] of the new bike. The ideas are good aꦐnd everything looks promising.

"The engine is different. The c﷽hassis is different, the electronics, the position of the rider... A small difference⛦ everywhere, but everywhere is different.

"This is also why the tests [at Valencia and Jerez] with this bike have no big🐲 meaning, because if the rider position changes [on the new bike] everything will change - the geometry, the setting, eve💃rything.

"We know where we want to go [with the concept of the new bike] but then we will see☂ how good the engineers are at putting this [into practice] because it's not easy. I can't wait."

In te🅠rms of the timescale for the new bike, Espargaro expects one 2020 machine will be ready for each rider at the Sepang tests꧑, hopefully with a shakedown-style systems check before leaving Europe at the end of January.

"I don’t know if in Malaysi🐼a we will receive the full versio✨n of the new engine, but part of the engine is already very different," Espargaro said.

"The plan ꦕis to receive at least one RS-GP 2020 [for each rider] in Malaysia in February and I can't wait, the bike looks promising, very different.

"We're trying the maximum and, if it's possi🐓ble, we'll try the bike [for a shakedown] at an airpor𝓡t or whatever before we leave Europe. But we are in the limit with the time.

"Anyway, to have one bike [each] is already good. I don’t need two bikes for the first test, I think to do back-to-back tests with the old bike at the first test is quite good. It's als🌱o interesting.

"Obviously to have three bikes [one 2019, two 2020] would be the best thing because then you can try the old bike theꦑ first day and after that the [new bikes].

"So then you can compare the two new bikes with differ🍰ent settings and you are a lot quicker to try new things. But ꦺit is how it is, so let's try to be positive!"

Since Aprilia and KTM are eligible for technical concessions, Espargaro confirmeꦏd that he will ride in both the Shakedown and Official tests at Sepang next year. The concessions also mean Aprilia's engine design can be changed during the season, meaning there is less pressure to have a full 2020 engine ready for Sepang.

Aprilia finished sixth and last in this year's constructors' championship, although Iannone matched the RS-GP's best result o๊f sixth, at Phillip Island, and briefly led the race.

Espargaro qualified fifth at Aragon, where he took his season-best fin▨ish of seventh and was higher in the riders' standings with 14th overall (63 points) compared to Iannone's 16th (43 points).

Espargaro and Iannone were 13th and 14th fastest respe🐬ctively at this week's final𝓀 test of the year at Jerez.