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Finally, Aprilia has caught Ducati, dominating last weekend's season-opening Thai MotoGP round like Ducati has dominated the championship's last half-decade or so.
It's no great surprise that it's taken so long. Aprilia started making motorcycles in the late 1960s, two decades after Ducati. It contested its first grands prix in the 1980s, three decades after Ducati. And while Ducati scored its first premier-class MotoGP podium in 1972, with a 500cc v-twin four-stroke, Aprilia didn't make the top three until 1999, with a 500cc v-twin two-stroke.
