Marco Bezzecchi and Aprilia Racing conquer Valencia for the best season ever

Nov 22, 2025 Michael Le Pard News

Published Nov 22, 2025 by Michael Le Pard

APRILIA ONE-TWO: MARCO BEZZECCHI DOMINATES THE RACE, RAÚL FERNÁNDEZ SECOND FOR TRACKHOUSE MOTOGP TEAM. JORGE MARTÍN WITH A PRECAUTIONARY DNF
The 2025 season ended in the best possible way for Aprilia Racing. Marco Bezzecchi started from pole position and dominated the long race from flag to flag, taking his third win of the season. For the first time in his career, the Italian rider won two GP races in a row, dominating every lap from the front both in Portimão and in Valencia. Before him, no Aprilia rider had ever managed to take the lead for an entire Grand Prix race. With the pole position earned on Saturday, he also tied the record for number of poles won with Aprilia, set by Aleix Espargaró, and with the win in Valencia, he also matched Espargaró for the number of wins, with this being his third. This is also a historic milestone for Aprilia Racing. In fact, for the first time ever, the team has taken to consecutive MotoGP wins. For the manufacturer from Noale, this also marks their first victory in Valencia, where they had never before been on the podium, and it is the second one-two after the 2023 Barcelona race.

The Italian rider closes out a historic year – the most victorious ever for Aprilia Racing in MotoGP – made up of extraordinary numbers: 15 podiums in all, with 3 wins in the sprint races and 3 in the long races, as well as 5 pole positions. This set of results gave him third place in the riders championship and placed Aprilia Racing second in the Manufacturers Championship.

After starting from the seventeenth spot on the grid, Jorge Martín had to comply with two long lap penalties for the incident in Motegi. During the fifteenth lap, Aprilia Racing decided to withdraw Jorge Martín from the race as a precaution.

Completing the Aprilia celebrations was Trackhouse MotoGP Team’s Raúl Fernández who finished his home race in second place behind Bezzecchi, making it a brilliant one-two for the RS-GP25.
This was a fantastic season finale. Raúl definitely put me to a hard test during the race because he was really fast and good, especially in the finale, but at the start I had set up the race well and created some margin that I knew I’d be able to manage. The last two laps were not easy, but I wanted this victory so much and I just stayed super focused, trying not to make any mistakes whatsoever.
I think withdrawing from the race was the right decision because I’m rather tired and I think it’s smart to turn up fresh on Tuesday so we can do a good test, since we have several things to try. There was no point in tiring myself out now without achieving anything of substance.
Finally a season finale as protagonists. It was fantastic to see two Aprilias out front, as we wait for Jorge and Ai to be at 100% as well. The statistics this year are extremely important. Marco had a perfect season, finishing third in the championship with a good margin. As manufacturers, we have seen our growth and we surpassed 400 points to clinch second place. All of this must not be enough for us, but it should be motivation for a 2026 as protagonists. A 2026 that actually begins already on Tuesday, and where we can’t wait to test the many upgrades that are being cranked out constantly from Noale. An immense thank you to the Piaggio Group for supporting us with great faith, and obviously to all the guys and girls in Noale who have done a brilliant job and who will certainly do an even better job next year. Forza Aprilia!

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