2016 Aprilia RS-GP

The 2016 Aprilia RS-GP Noale brand has been hard at work developing a brand new MotoGP race bike, and while the name remains, the 2016 Aprilia RS-GP machine completely new riders Stefan Bradl and Alvaro Bautista to tackle. MotoGP testing continues Losail, Qatar, Paddock as you get ready for the season-opener in a little over two weeks time. As a result, we see the teams debut their liveries, and no points are expected than the Aprilia Racing.

Aprilia says using the "minor" V4 engine, which by definition would be less than 90 ° in the angle cylinder head. Paddock chatter suggests that the new RS-GP does not share the 65 ° cylinder angle head Superbike 2016 Aprilia RSV4. However, you should make a reasonable good while. Rated at over 250hp, the Aprilia RS-GP uses the air valve, and crankshaft counter-rotating. This and slept in the gearbox that handles seamless upshifts and downshifts. Frame is aluminum twin-spar design, with aluminum swingarm and made.

Aprilia is not to disclose the weight of 2016 RS GP, but we expect them to be, or very near, the minimum weight requirement MotoGP machines - thus roughly 20 lbs lighter than its predecessor. The next season will be one of the most important to us," said Romano Albesiano, Aprilia Racing Manager. "The new bike shows in recent Aprilia Racing tradition, reinterpreting the concept without compromise, and it is the most ambitious project our racing department has ever undertaken."

The answers to the first tests have been outstanding. We received very positive feedback from both riders directly from Dynamics vision. In any case, this is the beginning of a long way and we are well aware of the difficulties it is inevitable that come along with any new project.We can count on the contribution of the expert team and two riders who are like Alvaro and Stefan, who immediately realized the importance of our plan for the development and the great efforts put forth by the Department of racing. I believe that, after the first class order, we will be able to set the goal of decent results.

Doha (Qatar), 2 March 2016, the new 2016 Aprilia RS-GP debuts at Losail. From 2 to 4 March the Italian V4 will be on the track for the first time in the event official, final exams RTA before the start of the 2016 Grand Prix Racing season.

This will start the 2016 MotoGP season Aprilia Racing. For the Italian team this is an important step in this project began in 2015, since the new Aprilia RS-GP is not an evolution of the previous model but the prototype based on the knowledge gained during the last year, characterized by research and data acquisition. I new bike is already conquering new milestone in the Aprilia racing history: in fact, it is the first true MotoGP bike, completely designed, developed and built by Aprilia in their unit, beginning with the engine, the unit is characterized by its narrow and exclusive V4 architecture, this apart from the rest of the SuperSport line from Noale.

2016 Aprilia RS RS-GP Model

Alvaro Bautista and Stefan Bradl had a fundamental role in the development of a new project as I 2015 "laboratory-season on the track. Alvaro and Stefan opportunity to familiarize themselves with the 2016 RS-GP during the last private test Losail circuit, to its great power. The brand new technical package, meet the new tire supplier and electronics control package, require a transparent section before order to reach a good level, but the feelings we arrived during the first two tests make us solidly optimistic about the new season.