As the clock ticks toward the beginning of the first MotoGP test of 2016, it is believed that Aprilia riders Alvaro Bautista and Stefan Bradl will not have the new RS-GP machine at their disposal at Sepang. Indeed sources close to the Noale factory indicate the team will not participate in the second off-season test at Phillip Island from the 17th to 19th of February, and have instead chosen to conduct a private shakedown in Qatar in the middle of that month. Along with the Losail track being logistically closer to Europe than Australia, the news suggests Aprilia is already playing catch up in its pre-season preparations, and wants to give the new machine a run out in a private setting,...
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