Aprilia Racing Tuareg 660 a legend solid from off-road races • Whole Motorbike

RACING IS READY TO GO OFF ROAD AS IT PREPARES FOR A RETURN TO THE TOP RALLY RAIDS

THE TUAREG 660 IS CENTRAL TO THE NEW APRILIA RACING PROJECT.

AS IS CLEAR FROM THE NAME AND THE EQUIPMENT OF THE TWIN-CYLINDER ENDURO, THE BIKE IS READY FOR A RETURN TO THE DESERT ADVENTURES THAT ARE IN ITS DNA

AN IMPORTANT PROJECT THAT CAN COUNT ON THE SUPPORT OF ONE OF ITALY’S TOP RIDERS: JACOPO CERUTTI IS THE APRILIA RACING FACTORY RIDER, RESPONSIBLE FOR BIKE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE 2023 SEASON

MASSIMO RIVOLA: “WITH THIS FASCINATING NEW PROJECT THE EVER-EVOLVING APRILIA RACING DEPARTMENT RETURNS TO ITS GREAT LOVE FOR OFF-ROAD EXPERIENCES”

ROMANO ALBESIANO: “WE ARE PICKING UP THE BATON OF A GREAT TRADITION, AND THE BIKE’S DEVELOPMENT WILL FAITHFULLY REPRESENT THE INNOVATION AND PERFORMANCE THAT CHARACTERISE APRILIA”

Verona, 27 January 2023 – Aprilia is getting ready for a return to the highest rally raids in 2024: an bold venture that might be overseen by Aprilia Racing, thereby repeating the profitable expertise of Aprilia’s earlier participation in Dakar, 2010-2012.

The Noale racing division returns to its real love, the world of off-road racing that marked Aprilia’s début on the planet of nationwide and worldwide competitions, because it develops the brand new Aprilia Tuareg 660, a motorbike whose very title underscores its calling and future.

The Aprilia Tuareg venture might be overseen by Jacopo Cerutti, 1989, who brings his personal in depth expertise to Aprilia Racing growth: the rider from Como has a number of Italian Motorally wins to his title, in addition to bringing residence 4 Italian and one European Enduro titles and having participated in Dakar six occasions already. He might be backed by Francesco Montanari, a national-level Enduro rider who achieved a terrific rookie efficiency on the Tricolore Motorally final yr.

Massimo Rivola – Aprilia Racing CEO

“With its ‘Again to Africa’ venture Aprilia Racing is returning to the world of off-road racing, to the races that solid the division. We need to continue to grow on the planet of Grand Prix motorbike racing and in on-track races. We need to uncover new expertise by our SP 250 Championship and the RS 660 Trophy, however we’re additionally embarking on a totally new venture with the extraordinary Aprilia Tuareg. It’s a further signal of growth for a racing division that has grown considerably over the previous years attaining outcomes by no means earlier than seen by Aprilia”.

Romano Albesiano – Aprilia Racing Technical Director

“We’re selecting up the baton from a historical past of nice successes. Aprilia is the one Italian model to have received a stage of the Dakar Rally, and in 2010 we took the final podium within the general rating. These are simply the primary steps in a totally new venture, and the aim of the 2023 season might be to begin us on the trail that may take us again to the good desert races, however one factor is definite, the bike might be solid from the values which have at all times marked Aprilia’s racing endeavours, i.e. innovation within the service of efficiency”.

Jacopo Cerutti

“I’m very blissful to be part of this venture, to work with a model that’s 100% Italian and that has such a terrific historical past in sports activities is a supply of nice satisfaction. This might be a brand new problem for me, coming from expertise with the Enduro 450. I might be driving a twin with huge potential and could have a key function to play in growth. It’s an distinctive alternative for a rider, and I can’t wait to begin”.

The racing model of the brand new Aprilia Tuareg 660 might be developed by Aprilia Racing with technical enter from GCorse (brother’s Gianfranco and Vittoriano Guareschi), who already labored on the Tuareg collaborating within the Italian Motorally Championship over the course of 2022. Involvement within the Tricolore Motorally will proceed in 2023, a season that might be totally centered on creating a venture that has proven huge potential proper from the beginning. The beginning line will function two Tuareg 660s entrusted to Cerutti and Montanari.

Alongside Aprilia Racing’s Tuareg venture, Aprilia can even be current on the venues of the 2023 Italian Motorally to supply assist for all these driving a Tuareg 660 within the new GPX “entry stage” class, which was particularly created to make the Championship extra accessible.

Aprilia stays true to its mission of introducing fans to the world of bikes, an goal it has been pursuing for years with the Italian FMI Aprilia Sport Manufacturing Championship and the Aprilia RS 660 Trophy.

Aprilia Racing, a legend solid from off-road races

Off-road races marked Aprilia’s début on the planet of racing, which isn’t any shock for a model that had already revealed its off-roading soul with early fashions just like the Scarabeo (produced within the ’70s). The primary racing motorbike manufactured in 1974 in Noale was a 125cc cross. The model earned its first titles within the 125cc and 250cc classes in 1977. In 1978 it stepped onto the rostrum and into the limelight of Motocross Championships.

Aprilia Racing made its foray into the adventurous world of the Motorbike World Championship in 1985, however would earn its first championship title in 1992. The world of off-road racing supplied one other seven world championship titles with the twin-cylinder SXV 450 and 550 taking residence three Supermoto Championship titles within the Rider class and 4 within the Producer class from 2004 to 2011.

After its first epic look within the Paris-Dakar with the Tuareg in 1989, Aprilia returned to the good desert race in 2010 with a revolutionary RXV Rally 450 twin that might take part in three consecutive editions of the Dakar from 2010 to 2012. The spectacular Rally instantly earned three stage victories and took third place general in 2010, narrowly lacking the fantastic goal of a rookie triumph.

Aprilia stays the one Italian producer to have received a stage on the Dakar, in 2012.