An Aprilia for Miguel Oliveira and Raul Fernandez.
An Aprilia for Miguel Oliveira and Raul Fernandez
Miguel Oliveira and Raúl Fernandez will be riding Team RNF’s Aprilia RS-GPs for the next two seasons of the MotoGP world championship.
After the confirmation of Aleix Espargaró and Maverick Viñales in the official Aprilia Racing team, the pair of riders for Team RNF is thus also defined, Miguel and Raúl will be racing on the RS-GPs of the team captained by Razlan Razali. Both riders chose and strongly wanted Aprilia, despite several alternative offers, showing great confidence in the project and the potential of the new team.
The Aprilia rider line-up for 2023 and 2024 is thus completed, with a significant timing of the solidity of the Italian project and its new ability to attract winning riders and young talent. The credit goes to the growth of the RS-GP, a protagonist in the current season and now firmly among the most interesting prototypes in the world’s major motorcycle championship.
Miguel Oliveira, Portuguese born in 1995, made his MotoGP debut in 2019 after highlighting himself as one of the best talents of his generation in the smaller classes. In the premier category he has already captured four victories and two podiums, an enviable palmarès but still not entirely truthful about the real potential of the rider from Almada.
A Spaniard from Madrid, where he was born in 2000, Raúl Fernandez seized his first prominent result by winning the CEV Moto3 in 2018. The top-class promotion came after an outstanding rookie season in Moto2. In fact, in his 2021 debut, the Spanish rider finished second, with a haul of 8 wins 12 total podiums and 7 pole positions.
