Aprilia Racing CEO Massimo Rivola will turn into the brand new president of the MotoGP World Championship Constructors’ Affiliation (MMSA), Motorsport.com has discovered.
The Italian was chosen in a vote that came about on Monday throughout preparation for the official post-season take a look at at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
Along with his election, Rivola will change KTM CEO Stefan Pierer for the subsequent two years, with the choice to increase his time period to a complete of 4 years.
Rivola joined Aprilia in 2019 after an extended stint in Formulation 1 the place he labored for Toro Rosso and Ferrari and has been instrumental in turning the Italian model right into a race-winning power in MotoGP.
The MMSA brings collectively all producers that compete within the championship, though that doesn’t imply they’re aligned in all facets.
In actual fact, in current instances there have been tensions inside the organisation when delicate points have been introduced up. One of the current examples was the dialogue concerning the engine freeze which can come into power when subsequent 12 months’s engines are homologated. The engine freeze will proceed till the top of 2026, simply earlier than new 850cc models arrive on the scene in 2027.
Massimo Rivola, Aprilia Racing CEO
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Although the technical laws had already been introduced by then, the proposal left a large margin for interpretation within the laws, one thing that all the time creates conflicts between producers.
Aprilia was probably the most sceptical members of the proposal that was accredited. Amongst different issues, the Italian producer thought-about it a contradiction to impose a restriction of that extent below the pretext of stopping prices from skyrocketing, when Yamaha – which enjoys probably the most versatile degree of concessions – was allowed to develop an engine in V-configuration with the present displacement (1000cc) when it should transfer to a smaller specification motor (850cc) in lower than two years.
In any case, the issues mentioned within the conferences of the MSMA should all the time be ratified by the Grand Prix Fee, which is the governing physique of the World Championship, and wherein, along with the producers, members of the promoter (Dorna), the Worldwide Motorcycling Federation (FIM), and the Groups’ Affiliation (IRTA) are additionally represented.
