Davide Brivio aware of factory ‘danger’ in Ai Ogura MotoGP deal
Davide Brivio: "♎Of course, there is some danger in this decision, as an Independent team..."

Davide Brivio has a proven reputation for picking future MotoGP stars.
The Italian previously gave multiple race winners 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Rins as well as 2020 world champion Joan Mir their premier-cꦬlass debꦅuts while running the Suzuki project.
Now team principal of Trackhouse, ⛎the Italian has🧜 selected Moto2 title contender Ai Ogura for a place at the satellite Aprilia team in 2025.
Brivio emphasised that signing a rookie is always seen as a multi-year project, with no expectati💧ons in year one.
But, comp༒ared to the past, there’💮s now an added ‘danger’.
That because if Ogura - or team-mate Raul Fernandez - delivers on the potential Brivio sees in them, factory teams will target the Trackhouse rider🅺s.
“It’s not easy to have a rookie in a team because we know next year we have to spend one ye🏅ar without expecting anything,” Brivio saiꦚd.
“Just let him [Ogura] enjoy, let him make experience. And then you try to♒ see if you can pick up some ‘flash’.
"Maybe one 🍒Free Practice𓂃 that has been good, one qualifying maybe, not so bad.
“You try to understand, to pick ♔up signs along the way. And then in the second or third years you try 🦩to make something.”
“Of course, there is some danger in this decisio🥀n, as an Independent team,” Brivio continued.
“Because the situation is different. At the time [we signed Vinales, Rins and Mir] we w𒆙ere a [Suzuki] factory team trying to develop factory riders for the future.
“Now we are an Independent team and there is the danger then that if he would b🔥e good, maybe in 2027 somebody will try to steal [him from] us.
“OK, we will try to make𝔍 him happy, and we know it is a medium-term programme. I know the risk.
“We will try to create a good environme👍nt around hi𒐪m, the most important thing is to try to continue to have a competitive bike and to convince Raul and Ai to stay with us as long as possible.
“Even if it is a big challenge because we know when a factory team calls, normally they𝔉 answer. But, OK, tha♏t’s a challenge!”
Ogura could be one of three rookies on next year's MotoGP grid wi♚th Fermin Aldeguer due to be confirmed at Gresini and Somkiat Chantra tipped for LCR.

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Val🍬entino Rossi come and go🦋. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.