Aprilia's 2026 MotoGP season has been nothing short of remarkable, with the RS-GPs regularly featuring at the sharp end of the grid. We sat down with Technical Director Fabiano Sterlacchini to understand what's driving that performance, and what the team is building toward as MotoGP prepares for a regulatory reset in 2027. Q: Since you joined the team, the RS-GP has gone from race-winner to genuine championship contender. Is there one specific area where you feel you've brought the most progress? Sterlacchini: Not really, to be honest. As I always said, it's super important in motorsport that you don't have any weak points. You have to work in parallel in any area of development – in our case, the aerodynamic, the electronic, the chassis behaviour, and the engine performance. What we did was (address) some specific topics. For example, the stability of the bike. This has probably been one of the crucial points, because now the bike is much more calm than before, and for the rider it's much more easy to push to the limit. Because you can have two approaches. One, you are changing the limit of the bike, but it's unpredictable, so the rider is keeping a margin. Or, you are not changing the limit, but you are making this limit more predictable, so the rider is reducing the margin and you are increasing the real performance. We worked for sure in this area. And in the meantime, we worked quite intensively across some areas but, I would say, in a balanced way – aerodynamic, electronic, chassis. We brought evolution in every area, and probably this is the secret of the gradient of growth. Q: There's been a lot of talk about the F-duct innovation – something clever that technically anybody could have found, but Aprilia did