Aprilia currently competes in MotoGP with a factory team but is not in the World Superbike Championship unlike Ducati, Honda, and Yamaha. Riders on Aprilia bikes have won championships three times not too long ago (Max Biaggi in 2010 and 2012, and Sylvain Guintoli in 2014).
However, a potential return of Aprilia to the WSBK paddock does not seem imminent. Massimo Rivola, CEO of Aprilia Racing, emphasized to Corse di Moto that he is firmly against the current rules:
– I am absolutely against the current Superbikes because they have a stupid regulation, so I don’t see why we should enter a championship with B-class prototypes, with all due respect. Superbikes should be derived from series, period. When they make a regulation similar to Superstock, it will be very interesting, but not now.
The Italian executive hopes that something will change by 2027 to make WSBK more appealing: ‘The hope is that from 2027, when we have to reduce the performance of MotoGP bikes and conceptually the MotoGP bike has to be two to three seconds faster than the Superbike, this will have to change the regulation. This makes me think there will be a regulation more in the style of Superstock. The time will come, but because we are sure of it’.