Stefan Bradl and Lorenzo Savadori will join the other riders on the MotoGP grid in the Spanish Grand Prix which takes place next weekend in Jerez. The Honda tester and the Aprilia test rider will be together with Dani Pedrosa, a KTM tester who will take part in the race in Andalusia as a wild card.
Last week KTM confirmed the presence of Pedrosa aboard the RC16 in the Spanish Grand Prix and that of Pol Espargaro at Mugello on the first weekend of June. Now Motorsport.com learns that Aprilia and Honda will take advantage of one of the wild cards granted in Jerez.
Although Honda benefits from the highest level of concessions and its regular drivers, Joan Mir and Luca Marini, have already been able to exploit them by taking part in private tests, part of the development work of the 2024 RC213V, especially in the phase preceding the use of the regulars , falls on Bradl. The German is in his seventh season as a test driver and in 2024 he has already taken to the track in the shakedown in Malaysia, in the tests in Qatar, in the private tests in Portimao and Jerez, the latter on two occasions.
Stefan Bradl, Team HRC
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The 2011 Moto2 world champion raced with Honda from his debut in MotoGP in 2012 until 2015, when he went to Aprilia and returned to the Honda as a test rider in 2018. Since then, and with Marc Marquez's injury in between , Bradl contested a total of 39 grands prix as a wild card or substitute. The year in which he worked the hardest was 2020, with up to 11 weekends, counting an eighth place in France as his best result.
Aprilia, on the other hand, will join its pair of riders, Aleix Espargaro and the author of the double in Austin, Maverick Vinakes, with test rider Lorenzo Savadori. The driver from Cesena is in his fifth season with the Noale manufacturer, where he arrived in 2020, competing in three grand prix. After half a season as a starter in 2021, with ten races completed, Savadori moved into the role of test and substitute driver, with five participations in 2022 and the same number in 2023, with an 11th place as his best result at Assen last year.
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