Collaboration agreement between Rina and Aprilia Racing. The multinational inspection, certification and engineering consultancy with headquarters in Genoa and the racing department of the Piaggio group motorcycle company have signed a two-year sponsorship and technical partnership contract to develop innovative technologies in the field of high-end motorcycling technological level.
Union of intentions
«The union of intents between two Italian technological excellences – explains a note – will apply to all areas of the design of a racing prototype. Thanks to the multidisciplinary skills and methodologies of technology transfer developed by Rina, Aprilia Racing will have the opportunity to further consolidate its role as leader and pioneer by bringing solutions never tried before to the track, in the world of motorsport and beyond».
With Aprilia Racing, «among the most famous brands in motorcycling as well as, with its 54 world titles, one of the most successful – states Ugo Salerno, president and CEO of Rina – we will be able to implement an extraordinary exchange of know-how and experiences, contributing to the development of innovative technical solutions to improve motorcycle performance».
Growth in motorsport and high technology
Romano Albesiano, technical director of Aprilia Racing, for his part, adds: «Coming into contact with an Italian company endowed with a profound and transversal engineering level like Rina opens us up to substantially infinite possibilities. Being able to draw on their portfolio of experience and skills, ranging from numerical simulation to the development of materials, will allow us to continue our growth path both in motorsport and as a technological excellence department of the Piaggio group”.