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Photos From The Aprilia Racing 2025 MotoGP Launch

By David Emmett |


The 2025 Aprilia RS-GP color scheme


Prominent Red Bull Sponsorship on Jorge Martin. And the #1 plate


Prominent Monster sponsorship on Marco Bezzecchi. Aprilia don't have an energy drink sponsor, so they can do that


From left to right: Paolo Bonora (Aprilia Racing Team Manager), Marco Bezzecchi (Rider #72), Massimo Rivola (Aprilia Racing CEO), Jorge Martin (Rider #1), Fabiano Sterlacchini (Aprilia Racing Technical Director)


The 2025 Aprilia RS-GP color scheme from the other side. More sponsor stickers than before


Aprilia test rider Lorenzo Savadori, the backbone of Aprilia's success


Jorge Martin showing off the number 1. There is a small #89 inside the 1, as well as two stars, for the two titles he has won.


Facing the future


Marco Bezzecchi and his tag line


Little(s) and Large


Max Biaggi is an Aprilia ambassador, and helped present the new team

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Nothing to like here really. Even the black doesn’t help anymore.

Too busy, too many sponsors.

When you know you’ll be getting the WC riding your bike, I would have expected them to produce somthing special. Really dull. Missed opportunity.

:edit: even the number one doesn’t pop out. What the…

I can't see the Case IH logo anymore, always liked that a Moto GP bike had a tractor manufacturer sticker on it.  The Came sticker is where the Case sticker was.  🙁

I do think there are too many sponsor stickers, it looks a bit busy.  But I guess they have plenty sponsors and need to please them all and at the end of the day, it will only be judged on how fast it can go round the track.  

The little fins on the back remind me of Optimus Prime.

It's conscerning to me that so few of the Moto GP teams seem to have real title sponsors. Lots of little logos all over the bike, but no headline act so to speak. Plus Aprilia need a new graphic deisgner, a gloss black bike shouldn't be that hard to make good looking.

Still getting used to all the open space from the side around the front wheel. Looks odd. I am still in 2018 in my head.

Liking Martin on it. Appreciated the speech their Team boss gave 1st day in the garage w the whole team, heartfelt and inspired. They seem to be readying for an uptick.

Boring livery, agreed. But not bad/offensive. If Trachouse did orange where their yellow is and Gulf big main center, we'd have a beauty. Gorgeous classic paint.

You might have linked this already, my apologies if you did. Here's what you're looking for. Stuey was on it! https://www.mgpnews.com/news/trackhouse-racing-in-gulf-colours/.

0 for 2 so far. Trackhouse livery is incredibly bland and the Aprilia looks like someone's 30-year-old black toolbox covered with stickers. That said, I really like the current Aprilia factory team and their apparent family vibe and I'm a fan of both of their riders. Hoping that they can do some David and Goliath (not holding my breath) stuff this year. I'm also hoping that Trackhouse can contribute to the cause but with a rookie and Raul Fernandez....

Link! My choice would be number two livery. I actually done quite get there attempt at a Gulf livery. They're is nothing gulf about it but for maybe the blue.
I get the feeling Trackhouse bought into MotoGP thinking they can commercialise it like they do in F1 once livery takes over. It's a bit sad for me to see racing teams now being mainly a business concern that has to earn money.

Certainly looks like it to me and the factory team have almost alluded to the fact they intend to realise the market value for the WC being on their bike so you’d hope for something to happen there and yes, Trackhouse do seem to do things slightly differently so I’m also watching that space. I don’t know about everyone else but I’m quite excited about the WC and his defection. Lawson 88/89 & Rossi 03/04 are great, romantic, legendary stories. Aprilia have, with their recent rider and staff signings, given themselves a real view of the chance to fight at the front. Appreciate Albesiano has gone but it seems that being the latest marque to raid the Bologna Billet (see what I did there?), could prove wise and maybe leave Borgo Panigale weakened somewhat. So yes, Marquez/Bagnaia fascinates, with Diggia’s GP25 a potential sideshow. KTM, with their perilous future yet stellar cast of riders intrigues and the Yamaha/Honda pantomime will, if nothing else, bring the popcorn out on occasion. For me, at 61 years of age, I’m happy to still say I always look at what might excite me as the season approaches and, without doubt, it’s the possible renaissance of Bez, but much more, the stealth-like threat of the world champion Jorge Martin and that’s the primary reason I’m heading to three grands prix to see what he can do while all the focus is on 63/93. Might I be disappointed? Possibly; is it against the odds? Probably; but like those iconic deeds described above, if these things were expected to happen they wouldn’t pass into legend would they? Let’s see, I'm excited…

we've yet to see anyone's true colours but based ona status quo - the same all over again - I'd reckon on Jorge to do much better on the Aprilia than AE41 and MV12. So he'd have won many races in 2024.

I don't see him as such a dark horse? He just needs to stay on and come second while he's sorting it out as opposed to binning it. I'm rooting for him.

As I've said previously, I wish he'd taken #189 with 1 on one side of the nose and 89 around the other side!

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Nothing to like here really. Even the black doesn’t help anymore.

Too busy, too many sponsors.

When you know you’ll be getting the WC riding your bike, I would have expected them to produce somthing special. Really dull. Missed opportunity.

:edit: even the number one doesn’t pop out. What the…

I can't see the Case IH logo anymore, always liked that a Moto GP bike had a tractor manufacturer sticker on it.  The Came sticker is where the Case sticker was.  🙁

I do think there are too many sponsor stickers, it looks a bit busy.  But I guess they have plenty sponsors and need to please them all and at the end of the day, it will only be judged on how fast it can go round the track.  

The little fins on the back remind me of Optimus Prime.

It's conscerning to me that so few of the Moto GP teams seem to have real title sponsors. Lots of little logos all over the bike, but no headline act so to speak. Plus Aprilia need a new graphic deisgner, a gloss black bike shouldn't be that hard to make good looking.

Still getting used to all the open space from the side around the front wheel. Looks odd. I am still in 2018 in my head.

Liking Martin on it. Appreciated the speech their Team boss gave 1st day in the garage w the whole team, heartfelt and inspired. They seem to be readying for an uptick.

Boring livery, agreed. But not bad/offensive. If Trachouse did orange where their yellow is and Gulf big main center, we'd have a beauty. Gorgeous classic paint.

You might have linked this already, my apologies if you did. Here's what you're looking for. Stuey was on it! https://www.mgpnews.com/news/trackhouse-racing-in-gulf-colours/.

0 for 2 so far. Trackhouse livery is incredibly bland and the Aprilia looks like someone's 30-year-old black toolbox covered with stickers. That said, I really like the current Aprilia factory team and their apparent family vibe and I'm a fan of both of their riders. Hoping that they can do some David and Goliath (not holding my breath) stuff this year. I'm also hoping that Trackhouse can contribute to the cause but with a rookie and Raul Fernandez....

Link! My choice would be number two livery. I actually done quite get there attempt at a Gulf livery. They're is nothing gulf about it but for maybe the blue.
I get the feeling Trackhouse bought into MotoGP thinking they can commercialise it like they do in F1 once livery takes over. It's a bit sad for me to see racing teams now being mainly a business concern that has to earn money.

Certainly looks like it to me and the factory team have almost alluded to the fact they intend to realise the market value for the WC being on their bike so you’d hope for something to happen there and yes, Trackhouse do seem to do things slightly differently so I’m also watching that space. I don’t know about everyone else but I’m quite excited about the WC and his defection. Lawson 88/89 & Rossi 03/04 are great, romantic, legendary stories. Aprilia have, with their recent rider and staff signings, given themselves a real view of the chance to fight at the front. Appreciate Albesiano has gone but it seems that being the latest marque to raid the Bologna Billet (see what I did there?), could prove wise and maybe leave Borgo Panigale weakened somewhat. So yes, Marquez/Bagnaia fascinates, with Diggia’s GP25 a potential sideshow. KTM, with their perilous future yet stellar cast of riders intrigues and the Yamaha/Honda pantomime will, if nothing else, bring the popcorn out on occasion. For me, at 61 years of age, I’m happy to still say I always look at what might excite me as the season approaches and, without doubt, it’s the possible renaissance of Bez, but much more, the stealth-like threat of the world champion Jorge Martin and that’s the primary reason I’m heading to three grands prix to see what he can do while all the focus is on 63/93. Might I be disappointed? Possibly; is it against the odds? Probably; but like those iconic deeds described above, if these things were expected to happen they wouldn’t pass into legend would they? Let’s see, I'm excited…

we've yet to see anyone's true colours but based ona status quo - the same all over again - I'd reckon on Jorge to do much better on the Aprilia than AE41 and MV12. So he'd have won many races in 2024.

I don't see him as such a dark horse? He just needs to stay on and come second while he's sorting it out as opposed to binning it. I'm rooting for him.

As I've said previously, I wish he'd taken #189 with 1 on one side of the nose and 89 around the other side!