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Alitalia-Aprilia Racing Sponsorship

26 April, 2020
Italy’s national airline, Alitalia (CAI) as we all know by now, will be the title sponsor Aprilia’s World Superbike effort for the next two years.Alitalia, who is still in the red (on Tuesday there was a 4 hour strike) will…

Leon Camier in Aprilia – Now it's Official

25 April, 2020
Aprilia has officially confirmed what Aprilia’s General Director Leo Mercanti already anticipated the other day, that Leon Camier has signed with the factory Aprilia team ito ride in World Superbikes next season.The 23 year old British racing rider, made his…

Aprilia and Alitalia Together in 2010

22 April, 2020
Back in November we reported that Alitalia would probably sponsor Aprilia in WSBK as a marketing move to promote both Italian brands.Alitalia and Aprilia (Piaggio Group) are both part of CEO’s Roberto Colaninno’s financial empire and will officially announce in…

Max Biaggi and the Aprilia RSV4-R Video

20 April, 2020
Aprilia officially launched the RSV4-R during the Imola Superbike weekend. Here’s Max Biaggi endorsing the little brother and a less expensive version of his RSV4-Factory. Biaggi recommends it and if the Roman Emperor says it’s great bike, we’ve got to…

Nakano linked to Aprilia?

17 April, 2020
Shinya Nakano’s name has come up once again, but this time not in conjunction with Motogp, but with the WSBK series.Nakano who lost his ride in Team Gresini to Spanish rider Toni Elias, also lost another chance to remain in…

Valencia Tests for WSBK and Moto2

17 April, 2020
The Ricardo Tormo Circuit at Valencia will see a number of different racing teams out in full force for two days of testing, tomorrow and Thursday.Many top WSB teams will be out on the track as well as host of…

Moto2: Aspar Martinez to decide this week

15 April, 2020
After having Julian Simon and Mike Di Meglio test five different bikes (the Spanish BQR, the English FTR, the German Kalex, the Swiss Suter and the Italian RSV) during last week’s Moto2 tests at Valencia, Jorge ‘Aspar’ Martinez now has…

WSBK: Second Day of Testing at Valencia with more bad weather

14 April, 2020
Freezing temperatures and rain showers hampered the second day of private testing at Valencia. The Aprilia team even packed in early and won’t be testing tomorrow, because Max Biaggi and Leon Camier will be in Montecarlo for Piaggio’s European Dealers…

Gigi Dall'Igna denies any Aprilia wrongdoings

13 April, 2020
When yesterday’s rumor broke that Aprilia had run a slightly different fuel injection pump on Max Biaggi’s RSV4 at Assen, and that the Italian manufacturer had been warned to replace it with the original homologated one mounted on their street…

Max Biaggi Scolds Aprilia

13 April, 2020
Aprilia’s PR department pulled a fast one yesterday. After announcing that Marco Simoncelli would be racing at the World Superbike round at Imola this weekend in their official press release, they also wrote that Simoncelli had lapped three tenths of…

Shinya Nakano to Announce Retirement

12 April, 2020
According to Italian website Bikeracing Shinya Nakano will announce his retirement from racing in a press conference Wednesday.Nakano, who turned 32 this month, has decided to retire after thirteen years of racing, which is probably due to continuing health problems.…

Hector Barbera signs with Sito Pons

11 April, 2020
The Pons Racing WRB team managed by Sito Pons has signed rider Hector Barbera to head their new 250cc team in 2009 championship. Barbera will ride an Aprilia RSA and will continue to be sponsored by the Spanish company Globalia…

Aprilia RSV4R Promo Video

10 April, 2020
Check out this spectacular promo video of the Aprilia RSV4R. Doesn’t it just want to make you go to an Aprilia dealer to buy it and then head to the nearest track and just whack open the throttle and feel…

WSBK: More Testing at Valencia

9 April, 2020
The Superbike tests at Portimao organized by Infront Motor Sport were officially over on Sunday, but several WSBK teams headed straight to the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia for another two days of important testing, before the first round of…

Aprilia rumors from Monza WSBK round

5 April, 2020
Our French cousin Vincent from Motosblog.fr has picked up some interesting stuff at Monza (and no it wasn’t one of the brolly girls) regarding Aprilia’s Superbike plans in 2012, but since they’re all paddock rumors take it with a grain…

Alvaro Bautista's Wheelie Goes Bad

4 April, 2020
Alvaro Bautista took third in today’s 250cc GP race, and while celebrating pulled the usual post race wheelie, but unfortunately flipped his bike in front of 130,000 Czech racing fans and had to hitch a ride to the parc ferme…

Mattia Pasini to sit out Sachsenring?

4 April, 2020
Mattia Pasini may not be competing in this weekend’s 250cc Sachsenring GP race and we may see another embarrasing repeat of what happened to Pasini and Team Toth during the Assen free practice last month.According to Gpone, Team Toth is…

Mattia Pasini hits out against MotoGP class

3 April, 2020
Grand Prix racing is not only the premier MotoGP class but also includes the 125cc and 250cc series that often gives us much closer and exciting racing.The leaders of these races often disappointed that the do not get the media…

Max Biaggi finally signs on the dotted line

3 April, 2020
Max Biaggi has finally signed with Aprilia for next two season and yes, this time it’s official, there’s even an Aprilia press release after the jump to prove it.The Roman Emperor had his fans deeply worried when Aprilia did not…

Max Biaggi renews with Aprilia for two years – UPDATED

2 April, 2020
Max Biaggi will be racing till he’s forty-one years old. The Italian, who is very close to winning his first World Superbike title, last night renewed his contract with the Noale based factory for the 2011 and 2012 seasons and…

WSBK: Aprilia Alitalia Racing Team Unveiled

2 April, 2020
Our Italian cousins over at Motoblog were at the Aprilia Alitalia Racing Team presentation that was held today at the airport of Fiumicino in Roma for the official unveiling of Aprilia’s RSV4 new Tricolour livery for the 2010 World Superbike…

Max Biaggi WSBK Champion Video Tributes

31 March, 2020
Like we said before, Max Biaggi winning the World Superbike Championship is Italy’s motorcycle community’s utmost wet dream and it didn’t take long for his fans to upload on YouTube several video tributes in honour of Roman Emperor.Here’s what the…

Marco Simoncelli's pass on Max Biaggi

29 March, 2020
Lucky for us the Flamini Brothers and Infront Motor Sports who run the WSBK series are less strict with Superbike footage, so this video probably won’t disappear like the MotoGP ones do.Here’s Fabrizio Calia from Italian TV La 7 interviewing…