The name of Aprilia CEO Massimo Rivola has repeatedly cropped up as a potential new MotꦓoGP boss when Liberty Media’s takeove🐠r is finalised.

The owners of Form꧑ula 1, Liberty Media, have a deal to acquire 86% of MotoGP.

The deal took a huge step forward earlier this month when Reuters reported that the European Union will proviꦚde uncoꦍnditional antitrust approval, which would allow the $3.8 billion (3.5 billion Euros) acq♒uisition to happen.

Unconfirmed rumours have speculated on whether Dorn🍸a CEO Ezpeleta could be replaced by a well-known face, when Liberty Media take over.

Massimo Rivola responds to MotoGP boss rumour

Chuck Aksland, who is the right-hand🔴 man to Wayne Rainey in MotoAmerﷺica, had been mentioned.

Intriguingly, Ri🎃vola’s name has al꧒so been mentioned.

𝓀Rivola has experience of working in F1 with Minardi, Toro Rosso and Ferrari. He knows Stefano Domenicali, the F1 CEO.

“Carmelo Ezpeleta is doing a great job an📖d I would never allow myself to go and oppose him.

“We already have our problems in Aprilia, we havꦰe to try to make up the lost gap.

“I have embraced a cause and this is the most interesting year with Jorge Martin 🅠and Marco Bezzecchi..."

A more pressing concern for Rivola will be the latest injuries sustained by Mar🍃tin.

A star signing by Aprilia last year, as he became MotoGP champion oꦉn a Ducati, Martin’s start to 2025 has been a nightmare.

He mis🃏sed the first three rou꧑nds due to an injury suffered just days before the first race.

Martin returned in Qatar but was left hospitalised with&n♏bsp;a collapsed lung and multiple rib fractures.