Aprilia manager Paolo Bonora made a more than positive balance of the first part of the 2022 MotoGP season, especially from Aleix Espargaró's side of the garage. Therefore, the manager defended that it is important to keep a cool head and keep working in the same way for the rest of the championship
Aprilia is on cloud nine with the good performance presented in the first half of the 2022 MotoGP season. Vice-leader of the World Riders' Championship with Aleix Espargaró, the company from Noale saw itself as a protagonist and left for the vacations with a more than positive balance of the championship, but focused on keeping its feet on the ground.
In the first 11 races of the year, Aleix took one victory, four other podiums, and two poles, and has 151 points, 21 less than leader Fabio Quartararo. In the Constructors' World Championship, the Italians are in third place, 91 hours behind leader Ducati. In the Teams contest, Aprilia leads the way with 213 points, 16 more than Yamaha.
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Before leaving on vacation, Paolo Bonora, the team's race manager, gave a positive assessment of the first part of the championship and highlighted the satisfaction of the structure run by Massimo Rivola not only with Aleix, but also with Aleix's team.The first part of the season was a positive evaluation of the first part of the championship and highlighted the satisfaction of the structure headed by Massimo Rivola not only with Aleix, but also with Maverick Viñales, who won at the Dutch GP the first podium of his career with the RS-GP - a third place in Assen.
"The first part of the season has been a very positive thing for us. We are very happy with the first races and, at Aprilia Racing, everyone is proud of the level we have reached," Bonora told the official MotoGP website. "At the moment we are improving race by race, step by step with Maverick, we really like his approach to racing. As you can see, his growth is steady and we will keep fighting to give him the confidence with the bike," he continued.
"From Aleix's side, what can I say? He is doing an amazing job. The first part of the season was absolutely unbelievable for us and now we will try to keep him in a comfortable environment to keep pushing in the best situation," he pointed out. "We are happy with both riders and with the work that our test rider Lorenzo Savadori is doing at the moment, because he is testing a lot of components, a lot of chassis, a lot of electronic settings, which we will bring in the future to our bike," he praised.
Asked about how excited he is for the second part of the season and his anxiety about the title race, Bonora replied: "To be honest, we don't want to think about anything else than working hard race by race. We would like to, as we have done so far, keep our feet on the ground, work hard and work well for sure, but keep this way of working. Going step by step. Then we will see in the future."
MotoGP is now on vacation and will be back in action on August 7, with the British GP at Silverstone.GRANDE PRÊMIO is following all the activities of the 2022 MotoGP World Championship.