A victory that makes you “enjoy”
Massimo Rivola is still wet with champagne when he appears in front of journalists to comment, together with Fabiano Sterlacchini, on the historic double won by Aprilia on the Mugello track in the Italian GP. First Marco Bezzecchi, second Jorge Martin. The Ducatis behind and almost off the podium if it were not for the miraculous defense carried out by Francesco Bagnaia who saved his third step from the assault of the other Aprilia, this time branded Trackhouse, of Ai Ogura.
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The question for Rivola is mandatory: “Does it feel even better to have won here, at Mugello, beating Ducati?”. The answer from the CEO of the Noale company is as sincere as possible: “Clearly yes. Very much so. I mean, I’m enjoying it like a hedgehog“. Clear and concise. The technical analysis is instead up to Sterlacchini: “From a technical point of view, coming here, on a track that is not exactly friendly to us, having done all the preparation work and having achieved the speed record and the track record – in addition to the victory and the double – was clearly for us technicians a response to our work. So it’s wonderful“.
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Aprilia is now strong everywhere
“This is the confirmation that we are strong more or less on all tracks and we have two strong riders on all tracks, each then with their own peculiarity and their favorite tracks like all riders – Rivola commented again – so we can only look ahead with good confidence. But we always come back to the matter of keeping our feet on the ground and having to do the work every day. If I go back to Friday, we did not think we could see such a pole position, such a front row and a Sunday like this. So I say well done to Fabiano and his guys because they did a great job together with the riders. I am particularly pleased by the fact that often we are not very strong immediately but then we come out in the long run. This means that work always pays off“.
