Davide Brivio is making a comeback to the MotoGP World Championship. The historic leader of Yamaha or Suzuki will now be with Aprilia’s satellite team, Trackhouse Racing, as team principal.
The announcement came this Thursday, on the sidelines of the last day of testing in Sepang. The Italian had left the Alpine project in motorsport a few months ago, and speculation about a return to MotoGP had been circulating since then.
Now, it’s official, and Brivio explained how he joins the newest team in the paddock: ‘It all happened very quickly in the last days with Justin [Marks, team owner] asking me to help Trackhouse in the MotoGP challenge. It’s so exciting to be a part of this new project since the beginning and I’m really looking forward to get to know Trackhouse more and see what we can bring in MotoGP from the successful vision and experience that this company has in other sports and environments. It could be a great combination of the two worlds. Now, it’s just one more test to go, almost time to go racing and we will try to support as much as we can our two talented riders Miguel [Oliveira] and Raúl [Fernández] and have fun. In the last few days everything has happened very quickly and before I could not say where I was going but hey, it’s great news and we will start working quickly!’.