Which MotoGP riders have a race seat for 2025

Coming into 2024, only three riders had contracts in their back pockets which guaranteed them a place on the 2025 grid.

That number has now jumped to six with the latest announcement that Fabio Quartararo has signed on with Yamaha for two more years.

Here is how the grid is shaping up for the 2025 season.

Ducati Corse

Rider 1: #1 Francesco Bagnaia – The reigning double world champion signed a new two-year contract with Ducati ahead of the 2024 campaign, taking him to the end of 2026.

Rider 2: TBC

Ducati has a number of options available to it for its second factory team seat, with Pramac’s Jorge Martin, Gresini’s Marc Marquez and current rider Enea Bastianini the frontrunners.

KTM

Rider 1: #33 Brad Binder – The South African already had a deal in place that ran until 2025, but a new contract penned last year extended this to the end of 2026.

Rider 2: TBC

Binder’s current team-mate Jack Miller is out of contract at the end of 2024 and looks vulnerable with KTM’s rookie sensation Pedro Acosta making waves at Tech3 already this season.

Autosport understands that a clause in Acosta’s contract makes him a free agent if KTM does not promote him to its factory team in 2025.

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 Aprilia

Rider 1: TBC

Rider 2: TBC

Both Maverick Vinales and Aleix Espargaro are out of contract at the end of the current year, but both are strong contenders to remain put with news that Fabio Quartararo is staying at Yamaha.

While coming into the 2023 season Espargaro felt that this would be his last contract, he noted at the end of 2023 that he still felt competitive and was erring more on continuing if he could than retiring.

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Yamaha

Rider 1: #20 Fabio Quartararo – The 2021 world champion was a key figure in the 2025 rider market and had been in contact with rival teams, as Yamaha’s lack of competitiveness forced him to think about alternate rides for his future.

But a blockbuster €12m per year offer from Yamaha – as well as confidence in the direction it was heading – has convinced Quartararo to put pen to paper with the Japanese marque.

Rider 2: TBC

Current Yamaha rider Alex Rins is only contracted to the end of 2024 after breaking out of his two-year Honda deal at the end of 2023.

While a strong option for Yamaha to continue with in 2025, a number of potential free agents could…