Aprilia’s 2023 MotoGP form nothing to do with “bad luck”

Aprilia has only scored 99 points from the first seven rounds of the 2023 season and has just one podium, courtesy of Maverick Vinales’ second at the Portuguese Grand Prix.

At the same stage in 2022, Aprilia had won a race and stood on the podium on three other occasions, with its points haul also standing at 99.

At the German Grand Prix last weekend, Espargaro was ninth in the…