Podium for Aprilia Racing and Marco Bezzecchi in the Portimão sprint race

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POLE POSITION AND THIRD PLACE FOR THE ITALIAN RIDER, LORENZO SAVADORI EIGHTEENTH
Aprilia Racing’s weekend at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve continues on positive notes. Marco Bezzecchi did an extraordinary Q2 session, taking pole position with a time of 1:37.556, his fourth of the season after the ones in Austria, Misano, and Mandalika. He took the lead straight away in the sprint race on the first turn, yielding the position a few laps later, but still finishing with an excellent third place, just six tenths behind the winner. This is Bezzecchi’s thirteenth podium of the season, which includes his Silverstone GP win and his wins in the Misano, Mandalika, and Phillip Island sprint races. These are important points that keep the Italian rider in third position for the overall rider standings with 298 points.

Lorenzo Savadori continued the RS-GP25 development programme in race conditions, finishing the sprint race eighteenth.

I’m happy. It was a good sprint race and a good day in general with pole position. The pace I had in the practice sessions was more or less the same as today. I obviously hoped to do a bit better, maybe even battling with the top two, but unfortunately, I was slightly slower.
I had a good start and I battled a bit at the beginning. We tried a few new elements for the development of the bike. It’s great to see Marco in pole position and on the podium again today.
It was a positive Saturday, especially since we were coming from a rather difficult race. Performance this morning in qualifying was extremely positive. We were missing something in the race, but the important thing is staying out front and battling for the win. Lorenzo also did an outstanding job. His contribution is truly important, testing various new things, both in terms of strategy and components that we will then apply to Marco’s bike. Overall, we should be satisfied with our work. We took another step forward towards achieving our goals.

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