The Kingmaker? Davide Brivio on Rossi, Raul and building champions
Gas It Out
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4.9 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Trackhouse Aprilia's Davide Brivio joins the Gas It Out crew for an in-depth, revealing chat about what it really takes to build winners in MotoGP.
From Valentino Rossi’s title-winning years to Suzuki’s fairytale success, and Trackhouse’s rise to the top with a revitalised Raul Fernández, Brivio explains how confidence, honesty, hard work and trust shape champions. He also talks MotoGP’s future, Liberty Media, talent spotting, and why raw speed alone is never enough.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to gas it out. We have got a special episode for you here, |
| 0:18.8 | an interview with one of the most influential |
| 0:20.8 | team managers in Moto GP. |
| 0:23.0 | Davide Brivio, actually probably |
| 0:24.7 | one of the most respected leaders |
| 0:27.1 | in modern motorsport. |
| 0:29.2 | He guided Valentino Rossi's golden years |
| 0:31.6 | at Yamaha. He was the man |
| 0:33.6 | masterminding Suzuki's fairy tale |
| 0:35.8 | motor GP success for Juan Mir in 2020, thanks for their |
| 0:40.3 | test rider. He's built a reputation for being calm, for being friendly and open, but also |
| 0:46.9 | taking on the bigger rivals, perhaps, throughout his career. He had a spell in Formula One |
| 0:52.2 | with Alpine, where he worked with Fernando |
| 0:54.8 | Alonso, but returned a couple of years ago to Moto GP and the track house, Prillia team. |
| 1:01.2 | And yeah, he's a thoughtful leader in our sport. Neil and Sylvan, we all get on, don't we? We |
| 1:07.8 | all enjoy spending time with Davido. What are you hoping to hear from him today? |
| 1:13.6 | Well, he's a straight shooter, |
| 1:14.9 | isn't he? So, like I said, we're all |
| 1:17.0 | good friends with him in anyway. |
| 1:19.9 | So he's |
| 1:22.0 | not full of BS, he's pretty |
| 1:24.6 | straight talking, and |
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