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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…

Aprilia RSV4: video and interviews

25 April, 2020
While this video is in Italian, it gives you a close-up of the Aprilia RSV4, the new Aprilia superbike that will be used by Max Biaggi and Shinya Nakano in the 2009 SBK series. To say that the guys at…

WSBK Aragon Testing: Max Biaggi fastest on Day 3

25 April, 2020
The last and final day of WBSK testing at the Motorland Aragon saw Max Biaggi on top once again and lowering Carlos Checa’s best time set on day 1. With a best lap of 1.58.00, the 2010 World Champion was…

2009 Superpole Video Highlights

25 April, 2020
Missed today’s WSBK Superpole? You can see a few highlights here or you can head over to the SBK official website and see the whole 50 minutes of the shoot out and also see tomorrow’s races in streaming. If by…

WSBK – Aprilia Testing at Misano

25 April, 2020
Aprilia’s first day (yesterday) of private testing was cut short due to fog at the Misano World circuit.Max Biaggi didn’t even try to do a couple of laps, while Leon Camier, who stepped in for in the now retired Shinya…

Max Biaggi on the past and retirement – video

25 April, 2020
MotoGeo interviewed Max Biaggi. The Roman Emperor won four 250cc World Championship titles, three with Aprilia and one on a Honda, and after becoming persona non grata in MotoGP he turned to World Superbikes where he took home another two…

Max Biaggi announces retirement

24 April, 2020
Two time World Superbike champion Max Biaggi has officially announced this morning in a press conference at the Vallelunga circuit that he will be retiring after 21 years of racing.The Roman Emperor who is 41, has 63 victories to his…

A Valentino Rossi Celebration – Part 1

24 April, 2020
Either you love him or you hate him, but no one can deny that Valentino Rossi is the superstar icon of MotoGP racing and to celebrate his 8th title, the Italian TV programme Matrix did a two hour interview with…

WSBK – Max Biaggi loses CAS Appeal for Monza Race

23 April, 2020
The slow wheels of justice aren’t limited only to Italy, it looks like the Swiss Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and likes to take its sweet time (7 months) before deciding on racing appeals as does Max Biaggi and…

Aprilia RSV4 at Misano with Tor Sagen

23 April, 2020
Tor Sagen from Raptors & Rockets has come up with this video of the Aprilia RSV4 Factory at the Misano World Circuit. The best part is the roaring sound of this RSV4 Factory ripping around the track, so turn up…

Max Biaggi to return to racing?

23 April, 2020
A couple of Tweets between Max Biaggi and Flavio Briatore, and some paddock gossip during last weekend’s World Superbike round at Motorland Aragon has prompted some speculation - by an Italian motorcycle website - that the retired two-time Superbike champion…

Pierfrancesco Chili criticizes Biaggi and Rossi

23 April, 2020
Back in 2007 and 2008, Pierfrancesco Chili was LA7’s network World Superbike technical commentator, but the following year he was dropped from the sports programme, without any explanations of sorts and replaced with the excellent Mauro Sanchini, a former WSBK…

Ben Spies Takes Race 1 in the Qatari Desert

22 April, 2020
Ben Spies won his second race of the WSBK season in Qatar on his Yamaha R1, even if he didn’t have a brilliant start from the pole position he obtained yesterday, leaving the lead to an impressive Max Biaggi on…

WSBK Monza: Max Biaggi decimates the Superpole with lap record

22 April, 2020
Max Biaggi and his Aprilia ruled this afternoon’s Superpole session at Monza. Biaggi blazed through the Italian track like the Emperor Nero setting Rome on fire with a record breaking lap of 1′41.745 that annihilated the rest of the field…

Max Biaggi to return to action at Portimao

22 April, 2020
Max Biaggi will be returning to action in this weekend’s last round of the World Superbike season at Portimao. The Italian missed the last three crucial rounds due to a freak incident at Nurburgring that fractured his foot, which dropped…

Max Biaggi signs with Aprilia for two years

22 April, 2020
Max Biaggi held out re-signing with Aprilia for a couple of weeks, tweaking the interest of many when he stated he was thinking of retiring, but the Italian has made up his mind and has finally decided to accept Aprilia’s…

WSBK: Aprilia will not use gear drive cam motor

21 April, 2020
During last month’s WSBK round at Phillip Island, Aprilia showed up with a gear driven cam motor on their Aprilia RSV4 Factory that Max Biaggi tried using during QP2, but not actually use during the two races. When rival manufacturers…

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…

Eugene Laverty to partner Max Biaggi in Aprilia in 2012

20 April, 2020
Eugene Laverty, according to Italian website motosprint.it will be riding for World Superbike’s Aprilia Alitalia Racing team and fielded alongside Max Biaggi in 2012.Laverty was tipped to ride for BMW Italia, who was offering him a contract for 300.000 euros,…

Aprilia RSV4 Factory: from concept to Superbike

20 April, 2020
Aprilia has released a new video regarding their RSV4 Factory production bike. This time Miguel Galluzzi, Vice-President of Aprilia’s Design Centre and José Gonzales, the designer shows us how and why the RSV4 project was conceived.Aprilia’s Superbike is 4th in…

Leon Camier on the Aprilia Superbike

20 April, 2020
Leon Camier who was crowned the 2009 British Superbike Champion at Silverstone on Sunday will be replacing injured Shinya Nakano on the Aprilia RSV4 Factory.According to Italy’s Motosprint, the Brit already has a contract from Aprilia to ride the last…

Max Biaggi awarded the 2012 Casco d'Oro

20 April, 2020
Motosprint decided to hold their annual Caschi D’Oro awards ceremony yesterday evening at the EICMA show in Milano (they didn’t hold it last year because of the death of Marco Simoncelli ) and taking home two awards this year as…