Gresini Aprilia will take a brand new chassis to this weekend’s Brno MotoGP round for both Alvaro Bautista and Stefan Bradl to experiment with.

As part of the RS-GP’s steep development curve, both riders will evaluate the chassis over the race weekend and into the test on Monday in order to create a 2016 bike good enough to be competitive at the post-season Valencia test.

“Having two riders with very similar performance allows us to do more testing which is a positive aspect for solving the growing pains of our package. At Brno we'll be putting a new frame on the track and we'll basically be using new setups, precisely for the purpose of streamlining our programme in view of 2016,’ said Aprilia race boss Romano Albesiano.

“With its fast turns and direction changes, the Czech track will be a demanding test bench for the RS-GP machine's chassis. We will definitely be gathering some more fundamental data.”