The factory Aprilia squad’s team principal Paolo Bon𝔍ora fears a repeat of its Aragon MotoGP woes “will probably occur” in the upcoming flyaway races.

Aprilia was expected to have a strong weekend last tim🍨e out in Aragon due to the layout of the circuit suiting the RS-GP’s strong cornering ability.

But following a good Friday on the new asphalt, the continual overnight rain that hit the are made grip condi📖tions worse on the track and Aprilia endured a torrid grand prix.

Aleix Espargaro was 40.602 seconds off the race win in 10th, while team-mate Maverick Vin꧋ales retired due to a lack of grip - which, at one stage, saw him over 50s off the lead.

Bonora says the lack of grip worked against the RS-GP’s s🅰trong points and fears Aprilia could be in for more pain when it gets to the flyaway races due to often unstable weather conditions at those events.

“Was 🌟so difficult, Aragon, much more than expected,”ཧ he said on Friday at the San Marino Grand Prix.

꧟“During free practice one, we saw immediately that there was no grip at all with the new surface.

“We expected a track improvement during the weekend, di🥂d during Friday afternoon.

“The rubber that was put into the track on Friday afternoo⛎n helped us a lot, but suddenly the rain on Friday night chan𝓰ged the behaviour of the circuit, it changed the situation.

“So, it was so difficult for us. We did not find the way ꦐto give confidence to our riders.

“We understand probably it is related to our ability not on fast corners and usi🅰ng the lean angle to make the speed.

“But if we have no grip at all it is so difficult to use the advanta🧜ge [of our bike].

“So, i💮t is necessary to understand this situation because probably will occur other times, particularly in the Asian circuits when there will be rain and sun.

“So, we have to be much faster in the modification of the bike to un🐼derstand this si𒁏tuation.”

Aprilia enjoyed a strong start to this 🧜weekend’s Misano round, with Espargaro s🌱ixth in FP1 and Vinales ninth.