Trackhouse workforce principal Davide Brivio believes the American outfit has “good substances” for its second MotoGP marketing campaign.
Brivio, who oversaw MotoGP titles for Yamaha (Valentino Rossi) and Suzuki (Joan Mir) earlier than transferring to Components One, was tempted again to 2 wheels by the newly shaped Trackhouse venture a yr in the past.
It proved a difficult marketing campaign with Miguel Oliveira and Raul Fernandez simply fifteenth and sixteenth respectively on the planet championship and Trackhouse forward of solely Honda within the groups’ standings.
However Brivio is assured the workforce has a lot firmer foundations for 2025, when Fernandez and new team-mate Ai Ogura can have the newest factory-spec machines from the beginning of this yr.
“The primary yr was a studying yr, particularly additionally for Trackhouse as an organisation,” Brivio mentioned.
“And now going through the 2025 season we have now plenty of new issues, ranging from Aprilia. We’re fairly excited to see the ‘25 bike. It appears to be like promising.
“The brand new [Aprilia] technical director [Fabiano Sterlacchini] is giving new vitality, a brand new method to method issues. And so we’re excited to see the place we are able to go [with the 2025 bike].”
One other oblique increase is Aprilia’s signing of recent world champion Jorge Martin.
“In fact, the manufacturing facility workforce with the reigning MotoGP world champion can also be type of stimulating. It’s an ideal benchmark for us to grasp the place we’re and the way the bike is performing.”
“A refreshed Raul Fernandez”
Trackhouse’s 2024 highs included Fernandez briefly main in Catalunya and a double entrance row in Sachsenring, the place Oliveira completed runner-up within the Dash.
However Trackhouse’s finest grand prix consequence was a fifth for Fernandez – who was upgraded from the ’23 to ’24 spec RS-GP throughout the summer time break – within the moist Buriram race.
Brivio underlined that they’d re-signed Fernandez “as a result of he’s an ideal expertise. We predict he has the potential and, to be sincere, now the problem is to make use of his potential.
“Raul is doing in all probability a distinct winter in comparison with the previous. He’s altering his means of coaching and it was a winter the place he may take into consideration what may be improved.
“What was the error final yr? What may be finished higher? What was working? And so we’re discussing, speaking, chatting and I hope we can have a type of refreshed Raul Fernandez in MotoGP.”
“Nice expertise” Ai Ogura
Becoming a member of Fernandez will likely be 23-year-old Japanese Ai Ogura, who rewarded Brivio and Trackhouse’s religion by occurring to win final yr’s Moto2 title.
“We took a choice to go for a rookie rider and Ai Ogura I feel is a superb expertise,” Brivio mentioned. “He demonstrated that final yr when he went on to win the Moto2 title.
“We’re very excited to have him, to be sincere. He has an ideal method. He’s very dedicated to racing, very severe about it. And I am very completely happy to start out this expertise with him.
“So we have now two younger, proficient riders. Hopefully, we’re additionally going to have a greater bike within the 2025 Aprilia.
“I’ll inform you in a couple of races, however it appears to be like like there are good substances to attempt to do one thing. So we are going to work on that…”
As a rookie, Ogura will likely be eligible to journey within the Sepang Shakedown check, which begins on the finish of this month.
Fernandez and the complete 2025 discipline will then take to the Malaysian observe throughout the next official check.
