Aprilia stand-in Lorenzo Savadori has been stripped of his finest MotoGP dash results of the 2025 season as a consequence of a tyre stress infringement on the Dutch Grand Prix.
The Italian, who serves as Aprilia’s official check and reserve rider, has competed in all however one spherical in 2025 as Jorge Martin’s harm aid.
Lorenzo Savadori has loved some strong Sunday outcomes this yr, together with a Fifteenth-place end on the Americas Grand Prix and ninth within the rain-hit French Grand Prix.
However Saturdays have usually been a weak level for Savadori, who’d solely certified inside the highest 20 as soon as this season previous to this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix.
At Assen, nonetheless, Savadori was a aggressive Fifteenth on the grid and went on to take his finest dash end of the yr in sixteenth forward of Trackhouse Aprilia rider Ai Ogura.
However this was later stripped from him owing to a tyre stress infringement, with Savadori given an eight-second time penalty.
This dropped him a spot to seventeenth forward of Honda stand-in Aleix Espargaro.
Regardless of this, Savadori was left proud of the progress Aprilia is making.
“It was a constructive day,” he mentioned.
“The bike is getting higher and higher. We nonetheless got here away with a good lap in qualifying, and the dash tempo was strong, as nicely.
“We have been capable of battle a bit of bit at first. General, we’re working nicely. The bike is enhancing on a regular basis, as Marco’s podium clearly reveals.”
Staff-mate Marco Bezzecchi got here by way of from fifth on the grid to grab third, marking his first dash podium because the 2023 Indonesian Grand Prix weekend when he was a VR46 Ducati rider.
