Aprilia fulfills strange Marco Bezzecchi request after Thailand MotoGP win

Aprilia has delivered a gift to Marco Bezzecchi, but it’s not the 2026 RS-GP MotoGP bike.

Bezzecchi stormed to a dominant victory at the MotoGP season opener in Thailand two-and-a-half weeks ago, the Italian heading to Brazil this weekend on a three-race win streak.

It was an important win for the Italian and for Aprilia, not least because it largely made up for Bezzecchi’s crash from the lead in the Buriram Sprint a day before.

But for Bezzecchi, it also gave an opportunity to submit a request to Aprilia, and quite a bizarre one on the face of it.

The Italian is reasonably well known for his slightly odd-ball taste by now – his victory lap in the Misano Sprint last year, holding aloft a fake leg in reference to an Italian comedy film, being a prime example of that. 

His request to Aprilia after Thailand certainly falls into a similar categorisation, as proven by Aprilia’s fulfilling of it.

The Noale manufacturer, owned by the Piaggio Group, had its MotoGP test rider Lorenzo Savadori drive up to the VR46 Motor Ranch, while Bezzecchi was taking a break between riding sessions, in a Piaggio Ape.

The three-wheeler was dressed in black paint with Aprilia Racing logos on the doors and Bezzecchi’s ‘Simply the Bez’ motif above the left headlight. 

Piaggio’s Ape is included in the Italian company’s commercial line of vehicles, but we’re less sure that Bezzecchi is planning a career switch to delivering pizzas as he is preparing for the next round of MotoGP’s popular new addition to the weekend at the Thai Grand Prix, the tuk tuk race, which replaced the usual pre-race rider parade at the first round of 2026.

That, of course, is assuming the tuk tuk race returns to a MotoGP weekend. We wouldn’t expect to see it before Indonesia, obviously, but it was such a clear winner that it would be a shame not to see it come back.