Aprilia RSV4 triumphs in the European Endurance Open Championship

Aprilia – Another important trophy is added to the long list of successes of the Aprilia RSV4. Two years after winning the rider and constructor titles in the FIM cup Superstock 1000, the Noale company also adds the European Endurance Open Championship, Thanks to Team Aprilia Grebenstein.

Riding an RSV4 RF the German crew made up of Ralph Uhlig, Oliver Skach, Andreas e Jurgen Scheffel obtained the decisive victory last Sunday 23 September in the 6 Hours of Oschersleben, the third and final stage of a championship which also included the 12 Hours of Magny-Cours and the 6 Hours of Dijon on the calendar, beating the competition from renowned teams such as Yamaha Viltais Experience, Sky Motos Vitesse (Yamaha) and BW77 Endurance (Kawasaki).

The story of the Aprilia RSV4 is a sport-related one. Born in 2009, it immediately showed its pistol soul and in 2010, in its second racing season, the RSV4 won the WSBK winning the two World Championships up for grabs: Constructors' and Drivers' with Max Biaggi in the saddle. It is the beginning of a long series of victories, Biaggi - the first Italian to win the Superbike World Championship - repeats the Riders' title in 2012 and the RSV4 again wins the World Championship reserved for manufacturers in 2012 and 2013. The third title arrives in 2014 Pilots with Sylvain Guintoli and the fourth Constructors' World Championship, the third consecutive, testifying to an indisputable technical superiority.

But RSV4's sporting career never ceases to amaze. From 2012 to 2014 the ART version, derived from the RSV4 SBK, competes in MotoGP with in the saddle Alex Espargaro, conquering the eleventh (in 2012) and twelfth (in 2013) place in the general classification, making it the best bike among those in the new CRT class. In 2015 the version most similar to the road bike, the Superstock, wins the category title with Lorenzo Savadori while, in its most powerful version, the one-litre V4 with pneumatic valve distribution brings the Aprilia brand back to MotoGP. In that year, the Noale company officially returned to the world's top motorcycle competition, bringing a prototype to the track which was the extreme evolution of the RSV4 project, designed around the 4° V-65.