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Aprilia has been making MotoGP headlines this week after replacing Bradley Smit🍬h with Lorenzo Savadori - but could an even bigger surprise, with another 'Lorenzo',🦂 be on the horizon?

According to , retired triple MotoGP champion 🧸Jorge Lorenzo is in talks with Aprilia about a test riding deal for 2021.

Afte🍎r his final race for Repsol Honda last November𝕴, Yamaha looked to have scored a major coup by signing the triple MotoGP champion for its European Test Team.

W💞ild-card race appearances were also planned, only෴ to be ruled out by MotoGP's reaction to the Covid pandemic.

But while other factory test rid🍸ers soon restarted their development work, Lorenzo – who believes 15-16 days of Yamaha testing were planned before the Covid outbreak - has taken part in just one more test since Sepang.

That was at Portimao, where Lorenzo again rode last year's machine (to a best time 3.0s behind Aprilia race rider Aleix Espargaro). He was not asked to replace Monste♏r Yamaha's Valentino Rossi when the Italian missed the second Aragon round.

Following what appears to be a cooling in Yamaha's enthusiasm for Lorenzo comes a surprise change in Aprilia's MotoGP line-up, with Lorenzo Savadori t𒁏aking over from fello𒆙w test rider Smith for the remaining three rounds. Smith was called-up to take over Andrea Iannone's seat, following his doping ban.

The suggestion by Speedweek.com is that the Smith-Savadori sw♊itch is because Lorenzo 'will probably' take over from Smith as Aprilia test rꦅider in 2021: 'We hear from Spain that the [Lorenzo] negotiations with Aprilia are well advanced, but the deal (as with Dovizioso) could still fail because of the money.'

Lore♚nzo ℱpreviously raced for Derbi/Aprilia in both 125 and 250cc, before joining MotoGP with Yamaha in 2008.

A return to Aprilia would not only complete a circle but, as the only manufacturer currently in MotoGP without a p🦩odium or race win, it would give Lorenzo the chance help take the project to new heights, as forme⭕r rival Dani Pedrosa has done at KTM.

Asked by mahbx.com abou✱t the Lorenzo rumours, an Aprilia spokesman didn't deny the possibility of talks, but insisted there's 'nothing near' a deal in place.

But if Lorenzo does go to Aprilia, might Ya𝓡maha respond by making an offer to Andrea Dovizioso?

With only the Aprilia race seat still officially available, the t❀riple title runner-up is thought to be leaning towards a testing role, with Honda another r♉umoured possibility.

If Dovi chooses tes🔯ting, and given Smith's Aprilia downgrade, Cal Crutchlow looks to be in pole position for the 2021 RS-GP race seat alongside Espargaro if Iannone loses his appeal𓆏.