World Superbike comes to Italy with the long awaited round at the Monza circuit, an historic track in the motorcycling world, setting for some of the most exciting races of all times.

The Aprilia Alitalia Racing Team has a special relationship with the Brianza track after Max Biaggi took an historic double win last season in front of 115,000 celebrating fans. The Corsair rode his Aprilia RSV4 to a double victory demonstrating the excellent shape he was in which then cemented into the two world titles (rider and manufacturer) which crowned the 2010 season.

The five-time world champion, who is absolutely determined to recover important points in the championship, will be at the centre of attention for the entire race weekend. The characteristics of the track enhance the qualities of both the RSV4 and Max Biaggi, on the hunt for the right motivation to look optimistically at the first Italian round, makes no bones about how important this race is:


"This Championship is a no-holds-barred battle. There is no room for mistakes because you pay a high price for each and every one. The first three races are enough to prove that. We know that we can be competitive at Monza, but the extremely high level of our rivals must not make us lose our focus. We need to recover points and we have plenty of potential to be able to do so, even the Assen round showed that. We are racing with the number "one" on our fairing so our objective can be nothing less than victory. Racing in Italy in front of my supporters – concludes Max Biaggi - will obviously give me a little more charge: I'm sure the Monza fans will give us a warm welcome and my fan-club will make it an even more special weekend for me, as they always do!".

On the other hand, the second rider on the Aprilia Alitalia Racing Team, Englishman Leon Camier, is looking for continuity after the podium in Donington and the fourth place at Assen. Leon likes Monza's fast track where last year, during his début, he performed well in both races:

"At Assen hard luck hounded me – explains Camier - fourth place is certainly not the result I had expected after the practice sessions. In the Monza race we need to confirm the steps forward that we showed with our race pace, while the Superpole is still my weak point. Even though there are various opportunities to overtake on a track like this one with decisive braking, starting out front is always very helpful and it lets you avoid taking risks in the first part of the race".