Tag: Marco Melandri

TEAM IN FOCUS: APRILIA RACING TEAM GRESINI

  Aprilia Racing Team Gresini resumed work developing the bike at Sepang Test 2, bringing new solutions and data to the track which had been developed by the racing department at Noale over the last few weeks. Alvaro Bautista and Marco Melandri focused primarily on testing the intermediate versions of the bikes. The tests were decidedly encouraging […]

WORLD SUPERBIKE: APRILIA DO THE DOUBLE AGAIN IN FRANCE.

Melandri wins equally wet race 2 Aprilia do the double again in France. In similar conditions to the opening race of the day, Marco Melandri (Aprilia Racing Team) has won Race 2 at Magny-Cours. Long time leader Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda World Superbike Team) crashed spectacularly on lap 11, before remounting only to retire to […]

WORLD SUPERBIKE APRILIA 1-2 RACE 1 IN MAGNY-COURS

Guintoli wins Race 1 and narrows the gap to championship lead Sunday, 5 October 2014 09:11 Aprilia 1-2 in France as both they and Kawasaki issue team orders. Because of the weather the race distance was reduced to 19 laps and after a number of riders fell in the warm up session the opening laps […]

APRILIA’S CRUSHING SUPERIORITY IN RACE 2 THWARTED BY SYLVAIN AND MARCO’S CRASH

WSBK – APRILIA RACING TEAM PORTIMÃO: GUINTOLI SECOND AND MELANDRI FOURTH IN RACE 1 APRILIA’S CRUSHING SUPERIORITY IN RACE 2 THWARTED BY SYLVAIN AND MARCO’S CRASH Portimão – A Sunday with plenty of upsets and surprises closed out the World Superbike Portuguese weekend. Race 1, which started under threatening clouds, had Marco Melandri starting off well […]

SECOND ROW FOR THE APRILIA RSV4s AT PORTIMÃO AFTER AN INCREDIBLY CLOSE SUPERPOLE.

MARCO MELANDRI, FOURTH, AND SYLVAIN GUINTOLI, SIXTH, ARE READY FOR TWO RACES WHICH PROMISE TO BE EXTREMELY EVENLY MATCHED.   Portimão – The practice sessions and foretold what was to come: Superbike at Portimão will be come down to hundredths of seconds. With minimal gaps between the top 10 finishers, the battle for Superpole was extremely […]