Alex Marquez to stay with Gresini Ducati for MotoGP 2025
Gresini Racing, which has a 2025 contract with Ducati to remain one of its satellite teams, has reached an agreement with Alex Marquez to extend their partnership next season. Marquez joined Gresini in 2023 from Honda, with which he made his premier class debut in 2020. After a first year with the factory team, due […]
Pramac to leave Ducati and become Yamaha satellite MotoGP team from 2025
Pramac will leave Ducati for the 2025 MotoGP season and become a Yamaha satellite team, with Motorsport.com understanding an official announcement is expected this weekend. The team will end an association of almost two decades with Ducati as a satellite team to embrace the offer presented by Yamaha, a possibility that had been cooking very […]
Is World Superbike superstar Razgatlioglu a genuine solution for a MotoGP team?
Toprak Razgatlioglu’s manager Kenan Sofuoglu says “there are teams that want” the Turkish rider in MotoGP next year despite holding a BMW World Superbike deal to the end of 2025. The 2025 MotoGP rider market has kicked into life in recent weeks following Ducati’s bombshell announcement that it would be bringing Marc Marquez into its […]
Martin manager expects Ducati to provide full support for rest of MotoGP 2024
Jorge Martin’s manager says Ducati “now has the opportunity to demonstrate that it keeps intact those values it stands for” by fully supporting him in the 2024 MotoGP title fight. Championship leader Martin will leave the Ducati stable at the end of the current season, after the marque went against its original plan to promote […]
How 2024’s ‘fake’ Bezzecchi got his factory MotoGP wishes with Aprilia
Aprilia CEO Massimo Rivola says the Italian marque has leaned on what Marco Bezzecchi did in MotoGP prior to 2024 as to what he can be capable of in 2025. On Monday, following initial Motorsport.com reports last week, Aprilia announced that it had signed Valentino Rossi protege Bezzecchi to its factory team for 2025 to […]
Adapting to all new line-up in MotoGP 2025 the only «question mark» for us
Aprilia says adapting to an all-new MotoGP rider line-up remains the only “question mark” for the marque as it prepares to welcome Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi from Ducati in 2025. Aprilia’s MotoGP programme is set for a major reshuffle next year, with the two riders who have played a major role in transforming the […]
Aprilia signs Bezzecchi to partner Martin for 2025 MotoGP season
Aprilia has signed VR46 rider Marco Bezzecchi on a multi-year contract to partner Jorge Martin at its factory MotoGP team from 2025. As reported by Motorsport.com, Bezzecchi will move to the Noale-based marque after three seasons with Ducati’s satellite VR46 squad, a stint that has so far yielded three grand prix victories and a best […]
Bezzecchi set to join factory Aprilia MotoGP team in 2025
Current VR46 Ducati rider Marco Bezzecchi is finalising a move to the factory Aprilia MotoGP for the upcoming MotoGP season, Motorsport.com understands. This move comes a year after three-time MotoGP grand prix winner Bezzecchi elected against a factory-spec Ducati at Pramac for 2024 to remain with his VR46 set-up on a year-old Desmosedici. Motorsport.com understands […]
Difficult to have a long MotoGP career now
Marc Marquez says “it’s difficult to have a long career” in MotoGP now because the competitive level in the series now is such that maintaining it is harder than before. Prior to last month’s Catalan Grand Prix, Aleix Espargaro announced that he would be retiring from MotoGP at the end of the 2024 season. It […]