Aprilia is taking initial steps towards a carbon fibre frame for its MotoGP bike. Despite on-track testing already conducted, including during the November test in Valencia, this isn’t a priority solution for the upcoming year.
This assurance came from test rider Lorenzo Savadori. Quoted by Crash.net, the Italian explained that the component is currently undergoing testing in a stage aimed at gathering information about its strengths and weaknesses:
– Carbon fibre is not our priority for 2024, we are just riding to analyse some information and receive new information. But we are focussed in another way. It’s the very beginning [of the project]. We started to use it this summer and we need to test more. We need to understand some things better on the frame, it has some positive aspects and there are also negatives. But it’s not the priority at the moment for Aprilia.