One week after their dominance in Barcelona, Aprilia faced some challenges at the MotoGP San Marino GP. Their best rider was Maverick Viñales, who couldn’t do better than fifth place.
Asked if the true picture of Aprilia’s performance is that from Catalan GP or Misano, the Spaniard said: ‘They are two different tracks. Honestly, here everyone is fast because there is a lot of grip. I think as a reference we have to take Assen, we have to take Silverstone, where the grip level is medium – is not very high or very low. So, on those tracks we were quite fast’.
Regarding Misano, Viñales told that it’s not easy to make a difference: ‘In Misano is always tricky: Ducati is doing 2.000 laps here, KTM were testing previously. It’s true [Lorenzo] Sava was testing here, but he was testing very new things that we can’t even try. So, in this track everyone is going fast – I include myself in this pack. But now for me it’s very important to improve the braking in the test day and we’ll take profit in the next tracks, of course’.