23 March 2019 Welcome to Racing Team Aprilia All the Mugello: 2019 Stars 2019 03 What a show! 04 06 RSV4 X The Final 225 CV Aprilia Fans Parade! 07 165 kg 08 11 12 #ApriliaAllStars 13 Thank you all! WELCOME TO THE MUGELLO: Saturday 23 March, Mugello International Circuit, Scarperia e San Piero (FI) An unforgettable event! Over ten thousand people gathered at the Mugello Circuit to spend a day together – a day dedicated to motorbikes, pleasure, and our collective passion for Aprilia. Read all about it in these pages. All the highlights, the champions, the events, and much more! “This is an amazing moment. No doubt about it. You can feel it here, today. After all the effort, all the work, all the sacrifices, this year has brought great satisfaction. And I’m sure I’m not being overoptimistic when I say that we’ll get some great results. We’ll do everything we can to win your hearts, to make you dream, to bring you thrills and excitement!” - Roberto Colaninno Receiving the FMI award for Aprilia’s sporting achievements. RACING TEAM 2019 The day brought one surprise after electronics and the engine. Paying another, including meetings with special attention to the chassis, our riders, with members of our too: there’s a big gap there, betwe- #bearacer club community and en Aprilia and its competitors. “Just with the media, chatting informally go back and think of the old 125 about this season’s news and hot and 250 2-stroke bikes, and you topics, our upcoming activities get the idea: they were categories and events, and our top products. where you simply had to have a Bathed in applause, here they great chassis, if you really wan- come! Andrea Iannone, onstage ted a competitive bike. with Bradley Smith, our official The same goes for Superbikes: test rider for the 2019 season. think back to the times when “Both Aleix and I had a good race everyone was going crazy trying to in Qatar - Andrea explained - but keep up with Max Biaggi!” And sud- now it’s time to focus on the next denly, there he was on the stage, GP. The bike has amazing poten- bursting with enthusiasm. “From tial, we’ve just got to keep getting that point of view, I think we’re better. That’s the most positive already in quite a good place as far thing: there’s scope for taking an as the 2019 GP bikes go”, Bradley extra step in every area.” So, what concluded. And then it was time should we focus on? Above all on for the bikes to do the speaking. Our “Walk of Fame”. There they were, all lined up one after another always done best: our motorcycles. From Haga’s to greet the crowd, on a motionless parade Aprilia to Doctor Rossi’s ‘Valenti-Peace and Love’ along the Mugello pit lane: all the bikes that 250cc; from Loris Reggiani’s Aprilia to the RS 250 over the last few decades have made the history on which Biaggi rode and won the 1995 World of Aprilia, winning us no less than 54 World Championship, and which “Il Corsaro” rode again Championships. As top European motorbike today, back at the Mugello circuit for the lap of manufacturers in terms of race wins, we decided honour he offered to his fans. to celebrate starting from the very thing we’ve APRILIA ALL STARS: Max Biaggi, Loris Capirossi, Ma- and thirst for victory. Between nuel Poggiali, Alex Gramigni, Ro- paddock, track and in the stands, berto Locatelli and many more: the crowd were treated to a what a band of champions! parade of champions but also At the Mugello circuit they all of well-known faces from the rode together on the racetrack, world of racing and showbiz, like in tribute to their experien- the Milanese rapper Emis Killa, ces with Aprilia, the motor- the actor and model Mariano Di cycle-makers that brought them Vaio, the legendary motorcycle great successes and rewards. commentator Guido Meda (Sky Hundreds of GPs raced in every Tv italian commentator and category! presenter), the artistic director And above all, five Italian cham- of Virgin Radio DJ Ringo, and so pions: nine riders’ titles between many more! All brought together them, in MotoGP and Super- by the same passion. All ready bike World Championships. and willing to put themselves to Men who in the racing saddle the same test: to ride an Aprilia showed courage, perseverance on the Mugello track. RSV4 X The highest technology standard ever. Aprilia All Stars was the perfect know-how. A motorcycle that opportunity to display our shows the incredibly close latest wow! products, and link between Aprilia’s on-sale especially to show off our new products and its racing division. RSV4 models. That’s why – to This reached an even more ex- the delight of a thrilled audien- treme level with the X version, ce – the first big presentation created for the tenth year of was dedicated to the new RSV4 the RSV4 project, reaching 225 1100 217 HP Factory: a massive HP and 165 Kg – of which only dose of technology and racing 10 will be built. Who were the real protagonists of the 2019 Apri- a chance to meet the riders and share a day of lia All Stars? No doubt about that! The passionate celebration with the whole team! Aprilia All Stars fans who filled the Mugello with an ocean of 2019 showed that the desire to share your story enthusiasm! Over ten thousand people who, and your passion is always a winning choice, on a Saturday early in the season, showed their and brings with it emotions and surprises. The collective love for Aprilia motorcycles. These highlight of the day? The prize draw for a Shiver were the thousands of fans of the Italian brand 900, won by a lucky fan, and the awarding of who packed the stands and paddock – anima- numerous other prizes designed by Aprilia and ted by music and games – and the hundreds of Aprilia Racing. followers of the #BeARacer community who had IT’S TIME TO RIDE! Not only spectators but also participants, sharing And the time reserved for those with the urge to emotions on the asphalt: this is the promise that live a racer’s experience, riding a lap on the circuit, Aprilia All Star 2019 made and maintained, giving hearing the advice of the coaches and feeling all so many enthusiasts the opportunity to crowd the the warmth of the fans as they return to the pad- grandstands and the Mugello paddock and groove dock. In short, a special moment made of sharing with the music, enjoy the games and share the and passion, a memorable day that, once again, joyful atmosphere with the whole team. Not to celebrates our claim: #BeARacer! mention the chance to test ride in the Mugello hills! SR150 RACE: Legendary champions in the saddles of Aprilia scooters: and the winner was? The best race ever, riding the 11 Aprilia SR150 scooters. The sight of Max Biaggi wearing the black and red tracksuit of his glory days? That was the absolute climax for the fans at the Mugello Circuit, the big surprise of the day in this fun-filled race. The most spectacular moment was the Le Mans-style start, with all the riders lined up on foot in front of the scooters, ready to run and jump on the saddle and roar off in full throttle! Among the public, all eyes were on DJ Ringo and Guido Meda: would their skills on the track live up to the enthusiasm they put into what they say about the world of motorcycles? All hunched down on the Mugello straight to optimise aerodynamics and try to cross the finish line first! The winner? Manuel Poggiali won the final sprint (but that was only a detail). THE FINAL PARADE What a parade and what a and enthusiastic voice of live show! The Mugello Aprilia MotoGP television, rounding All Stars 2019 ended with an off the All Stars Day on the impressive event, perhaps legendary Mugello circuit. The the most eagerly awaited of dream of the many riders who the day for the many Aprilia with their lights turned on enthusiasts who participated said goodbye to a magical day, in the Mugello event: one and but with their minds already a half laps around the track at projected towards the next ap- sunset, with the last light of day pointment in the Tuscan hills: embracing riders and bikes in the MotoGP racing weekend, the golden twilight of the final scheduled for 2 June. That’s parade. Dozens upon dozens when the all the teams’ riders of motorcycles streamed slowly – Aprilia’s especially – will hope around the track on the Tuscan for a great performance on one circuit, in a truly breathta- of the world’s fastest tracks. king “final lap”: a carousel of motorbikes ridden by fans, And for everyone else, a amateur riders and the Aprilia ‘save the day’ appointment in team. One of the riders was the 2020, for the next Aprilia All journalist and commentator Stars event! Guido Meda, the passionate «A fabulous day for Aprilia, a fabulous day for us all» - Roberto Colaninno THANK YOU ALL! An unforgettable day for Aprilia Roberto Locatelli joined the motorcycle fans and enthu- chorus: “Wonderful. siasts. “What a great day with Especially being with the youn- so many people! Nice to get gsters riding for Aprilia today. back on the track on such a Occasions like this make us great occasion,” Loris Capirossi identify with them.” Manuel remarked at the end of the day, Poggiali boosted the adrenaline a champion who lived through dose: “Fabulous to be part of many exciting duels against his it, with so many people.