2024 MotoGP Team Preview: Aprilia Racing

Over the last few years, Aprilia Racing has undertaken a constant growth process. First becoming a factory team, and then putting four bikes on the track thanks to the satellite team. Aprilia concluded its 2023 season on a positive note and aims to sustain the momentum going forward.

After two seasons of constant growth, 2024 represents the year of confirmation for Aprilia. Technical evolution has taken the bike and team to an unprecedented level and the racing department from Noale, under the leadership of Romano Albesiano, has taken on this challenge. In other words, in an innovative way, with choices that blazed the trail for others and which, in the latest evolution of the RS-GP, find an even more extreme application.

The RS-GP's main talking point is aerodynamics – the most visible part – but every detail, from the V4 engine to the chassis, has been redesigned and advanced, whilst still maintaining a clear connection with the already competitive 2023 base.

There will certainly be no lack of data to be analysed at the end of each session, given the fact that, in addition to the super-confirmed duo of Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinales, Miguel Oliveira will be starting the new season on an RS-GP24. Raul Fernandez, the second Team Trackhouse standard bearer, will be using a 2023-spec bike which will then be upgraded to the most recent version.

The 2024 MotoGP race calendar will consist of 21 Grands Prix and 42 races as MotoGP will again engage the popular Saturday Sprint format at every round. The first of 21 rounds begins with the trip to the Lusail International Circuit for the Grand Prix of Qatar from March 8-10.