Aprilia wants Andrea Dovizioso as a pilot for MotoGP 2022 after his test in Mugello but will only wait a month

The second, and last moment, Andrea Dovizioso test with the RS-GP 2021 aprilia has not been as fruitful as the first.It is not that there has been bad feeling among the parties, but that the rain has ruined the tests.Dovizioso could only dry a few laps on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the test ended even ahead.

In spite of everything, there is still tune between the parties.Aprilia has already publicly communicated that he wants Dovizioso to be his starting pilot in 2022 and that he exercises the rest of this season as a tester, but the final decision will be from Italian.Of course, in Noale they are not going to wait for you forever.

Dovizioso could do a third test in Mugello, but Aprilia wants her to be a tester pilot

Massimo Rivola, the leader of the Prildia project, has confirmed after the test in Mugello that "we first have to know if it will be part of our test program in 2021, starting with a test within a month.It is a decision that Andrea will have to take very soon.If it continues, in a month or so you will have to decide what to do in 2022 ".

The arrangement of Aprilia is total, and that is that Noale's brand is going to have her own team already in 2022 and wants a very experienced couple of pilots with Aleix Espargaró and Dovizioso himself.Of course, they are clear that they will not make the same mistake as last season, when they waited for Andrea Iannone until the end, with Cal Crutchlow under their arm, and in the end they lost both.

Crutchlow signed with Yamaha tired of waiting for the definitive yesterday, and a few days later the sanction to Iannone was confirmed.Then Aprilia had to go to the desperate market, looking for all kinds of pilots.They received Pumpkins from Marco Bezzecchi, Fabio Di Giannantonio, Joe Roberts, Tito Rabat and Michele Pirro, and ended up with Lorenzo Savadori again.

"Andrea will have to decide very soon if you want to continue testing with us.From the first day in Jerez we have treated him as if he were a factory pilot, we have made all the changes he has demanded us.Now he has to decide what he wants to do, if he wants to continue with the test program in 2021 with a return views in 2022, "says Rivola.

After the Unfortunate Test in Mugello, Dovizioso has been open to negotiate a third test day, which is not yet closed but is most likely played in June in the Mugarlo Circuit itself.Aprilia's plans was that Dovizioso already squeezed the motorcycle to the maximum, but it could not be for the rain.

What dovizioso does not want to hear at the moment is to make a 'Wild Card' this season.The three -time MotoGP runner -up justifies that "does not enter my plans.I have not yet been able.

Dovizioso explains that "it would have been important to be able to risk here, but I have not had the opportunity to do it because the track was wet.Of course I have ideas of the differences between April and Ducati, but now it would not be intelligent to talk about them, it is very soon.I need another test to understand everything better.Important sensations are when you go fast ".

Forlì's pilot left MotoGP at the end of last year promising that he would return in 2022.As the category grill is right now, it seems clear that its only option to be an official pilot of a brand passes through Aprilia, although the option of replacing Valentino Rossi in Petronas could be stored under the arm in case ''Il dottore 'retires.There is not much more.

Aprilia confirms that you will have a satellite team in 2022

Another great news confirmed by Rivola is that Aprilia will have a satellite team in 2022.It was an open secret, but it is already formally communicated by the brand.I need to know what team will it be.According to Rivola, Gresini has priority for so many years of Alliance, but the VR46 is another alternative.We will know very soon.

"Within a couple of weeks we will have the confirmation of our satellite team.We have made our motorcycles available to Gresini Racing.Without a doubt, they have priority from the relationship that unites us.But there are also other candidates.Now there is a lot of VR46.The objective of our satellite team will be to train young pilots to grow there ".Rivola says.

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