The curtain falls on the 2012 World Superbike season which will start on 26 February at the Australian track of Phillip Island.
For the fourth year in a row, the Aprilia Racing Team participates as a key player in the WSBK world, the championship reserved for factory derivative bikes, where all of the major sport bike manufacturers face off.
The Italian team can count on five time world champion Max Biaggi, the only Italian in history to have won (in 2010 on his Aprilia RSV4) the WSBK championship wreath, accompanied by twenty-five year old Irishman Eugene Laverty, who had an excellent 2011 season in his championship début.
Thanks to this top notch formation, Aprilia Racing Team has set its sights on winning the Rider and Manufacturer championships.
The level of competition, if anything even higher after the winter market moves, bears witness to the importance assumed by World Superbike, a true proving ground for the best factory production bikes.
Aprilia brings to the table the diamond head of its history, rich with technology and innovation: the four cylinder RSV4, characterised by the exclusive architecture of its narrow 1,000 cc V engine, an extraordinary project which was born and raised within the Aprilia Racing Department and simultaneously developed for the street version of the bike, available to all enthusiasts.
Aprilia - Piaggio Group - is one of the most victorious sport motorcycle brands, having collected 49 world titles in its brief history: 38 in MotoGP (where it also boasts a record of 294 GP wins), 2 very recent victories in Superbike and 9 in off-road disciplines.
Coordinating the Aprilia Racing Team operations during the 2012 SBK season will be Luigi Dall’Igna, Technical and Sport Director of the Racing Department, with Dario Raimondi working alongside him as Team Manager. Max Biaggi’s garage will welcome new entry, Aligi Deganello as head mechanic, while Eugene Laverty will entrust is RSV4 to the able hands of Marcus Eschembacher.
