Aprilia dominated the MotoGP round at Assen last weekend. The brand took five of the six available podiums in two races, including both wins.
Saturday’s Sprint saw the Aprilia Trackhouse satellite squad take the first two places with Raul Fernandez winning and Ai Ogura finishing second. The Ducati under Fabio Di Giannantonio came home in third.
Sunday’s full-length GP saw Aprilia sweep the podium. This time Ogura won the race ahead of second place Fernandez and third place Jorge Martin.
Martin is the new points leader in the championship. Ogura’s strong recent form sees him move up to fourth in the championship, just 25 points behind Martin.
For full results and points for Saturday’s Sprint race, visit the MotoGP site here. For full results and points for Sunday’s MotoGP race, visit the MotoGP site here.
Yea, I remember the good old days of some amazing AMA Superbike racing and some good american talent. The loss of MotoGP from Laguna Seca is sad too. Maybe now that the bikes inn 2027 will be slower than AMA Superbikes they can come back to Laguna. At least MotoGP this year has been a lot better than last year.
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I’ll never understand how someone sold the manufacturers on the idea of one, what has become pretty goofy, race series would be a be ad spend than three popular race series. Two of which raced bike based on that you could actually buy. The race on Sunday sell on Monday bit was working very well. Now that’s down the loo out through the septic and nurished a tree that got sick and died.
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Trackhouse is doing a very impressive job in just it’s second year. The American team would like to eventually have an American rider. But alas, American road racing was destroyed 24 years ago to create MotoGP amd it has not recovered. Even WSB remains a bit of a side show.
Odd the the manufacturers play along. Suzuki and Kawasaki haven’t really done anything to bring back the good old days either. I see this as a malaise era like the automotive industry had in the late 70s and the 80s. The auto industry is embracing a new malaise right now as people are moving to aquire “pre-screen” cars for reliability and repairability reasons. The street bike industry? Well, what are they selling now? Big heavy fake dirt bikes with, you guessed it, ever larger screens.
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