2025 MotoGP riders and teams

Which MotoGP riders are not changing teams for 2025?

Let’s start with the easy question. Because in the most silly of silly seasons, this is a very short list.

Pecco Bagnaia will be staying at the factory Ducati team – a move that should surprise precisely no one. In the rest of Ducati-land, Fabio di Giannantonio is staying with the VR46 racing team, and Álex Márquez will remain at Gresini for 2025. 

Honda’s rider lineup is a bit more stable. Johann Zarco stays with the satellite LCR team while both 2020 champion Joan Mir and Luca Marini will continue on factory bikes with the HRC team.

Brad Binder remains with the factory KTM team for another season, while Fabio Quartararo and Álex Rins hang on at Yamaha for another season, Raúl Fernández will ride for Trackhouse again in 2025.

So, which MotoGP riders are changing teams for 2025?

Aha, now you’re asking the bigger questions. We’ll just go through riders and which teams they are going to be with for the new season before we add the complications of which teams are changing bike suppliers. 

Moving in alphabetical order: Marco Bezzecchi will now partner Jorge Martín with Aprillia’s factory team, while the other Aprillia outfit, Trackhouse, brings in Japanese rider Ai Ogura to partner Fernández.

At Ducati, the plan to move MotoGP megastar Marc Márquez into a championship-winning bike will be complete as he switches to the factory team for 2025. Franco Morbidelli is on the move again, joining VR46, while Fermín Aldeguer will make the step up from Moto2 to replace Márquez at Gresini.

Honda welcomes Thai rider Somkiat Chantra to the LCR team, just in time for his country to host the opening round of the season.

KTM welcomes Pedro Acosta to the factory team, having raced for GASGAS on a satellite bike previously, while it’s all-change at Tech3, which will race with Maverick Viñales and Enea Bastianini. 

Pramac has an all-new rider lineup on its satellite Yamahas with Jack Miller joining from Aprillia and Miguel Oliveira from Trackhouse. 

What teams are racing in 2025?

This is the source of some of the merry-go-round. Several teams have made switches in machinery and there’s an unconnected name change to throw in. So, we might as well go through all the teams to be clear.

Aprillia: the factory team continues to be joined by Trackhouse, which will run current-year bikes after Raúl Fernández spent 2024 on a 2023 spec bike. 

Ducati: Three teams will run Ducati bikes in 2025, with a split of three current-year spec bikes and three on year-old ones. The two factory bikes will be full 2025-spec, but Fabio Di Giannantonio’s VR46 bike will also be the latest version. The other VR46 bike of Franco Morbidelli will be a 2024 bike. Gresini is the final team running a Ducati for 2024, after Pramac switched suppliers for the new season. Both Gresini bikes will be 2024 spec.

Honda: All as you were, two 2025 bikes each for LCR and HRC.

KTM: Four new spec bikes for the factory team and Tech3. The satellite Tech3 team will continue to use KTM machines, but its deal with GasGas to brand the bikes with the Spanish manufacturer’s name will end and the team will return to its own branding. 

Yamaha: The struggling former kings finally have a satellite team of their own, for the first time since 2022, as Pramac switches from its long-time partner Ducati to a seven-year deal with Yamaha.

Any other changes we should know about?

Just the one we think is significant enough to mention. After 30 years the factory HRC Hondas will no longer be sponsored by Repsol. Considering every single one of Marc Márquez’s championships and all of Valentino Rossi’s Honda wins were taken in Repsol colours, this is going to be quite a change for the look of the grid.

2025 MotoGP riders and teams

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