The Ioda MotoGP team has completed a deal to switch to World Superbikes in 2016, with Alex de Angelis appearing on the provisional entry list for the Italian outfit. Giampiero Sacchi's team will run a pair of Aprilia RSV4s in the production-based series, ensuring the Noale-based firm remains represented on the World Superbike grid. It marks an end to four-season stint in MotoGP for Ioda, which first joined Grand Prix racing's premier class as a Claiming Rule Team entry in 2012 with Danilo Petrucci as its sole rider. Petrucci took the team's best ever result of eighth in that year's rain-soaked Valencia race. Ioda switched to the Aprilia RSV4-derived ART machine in 2014, but the arrival of...
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