Aprilia’s RS-GP may have won three MotoGPs in the hands of Aleix Espargaro but its predecessor, the RS Cube, was literally a fire breathing monster.
, Colin Edwards explained how he turned down a planned factory Ducati WorldSBK deal to jump onto the RS Cube and follow his grand prix dream.
“And they pretty much straight up were like: ‘We want you to do what you want to do. We don’t want to get in the way of your career. We’ve got riders that can win the world championship’. And with Honda being out, it was kind of guaranteed they would win in ’03, ’04 anyway. There were also ‘reliability’ issues. The most spectacular of which saw Edwards forced to bail off his Aprilia at 120mph after the fuel cap fell off at Sachsenring,
The RS Cube disappeared from MotoGP at the end of 2004 having never bettered the sixth by Edwards at Suzuka.Edwards switched to Gresini Honda for 2004 and celebrated his first MotoGP podiums, before claiming ten more rostrums during seven years with Yamaha . “It’s awesome! Aleix came from the CRT thing with me and they were horrible things to ride! I think he got pole at that year. I thought, ‘how the hell is he kicking that pile of shit around so fast!’ But he managed to do it!’" Edwards said.
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