The 2025 MotoGP campaign is starting to take shape as all but one of the rides have been announced with the season opener also being confirmed.
This came after a dramatic silly season, where only three riders entered 2024 with a contract that guaranteed them a spot on the 2025 grid.
Marc Marquez, Jorge Martin and Enea Bastianini are amongst the big names to have switched teams for next year, while it will also feature a squad partnering with a new manufacturer for the first time since 2003.
If 2024 is anything to go by, then 2025 should be a cracker. Martin currently leads the standings as he seeks a maiden crown, but the reigning, two-time world champion Francesco Bagnaia trails his Pramac rival by only seven points with seven rounds left.
The factory Ducati rider has actually scored five more grand prix victories than Martin, but the championship leader has been incredibly consistent in the sprint races recording only one finish outside of the top four as he retired in Mugello.
Marquez is also on the periphery, as the third-placed rider is 53 points behind Martin after scoring back-to-back victories at Aragon and Misano which were his first wins of the season.
Yet two of the top three are still moving on next year, as is much of the grid, so here is everything to know about the 2025 MotoGP season.
2025 MotoGP rider line-up
The rider market for 2025 has been one of the craziest in recent memory as it was only Bagnaia (Ducati), Brad Binder (KTM) and Johann Zarco (LCR) who entered this year already under contract for next season.
In March it was then announced that Moto2’s Fermin Aldeguer had signed a Ducati factory contract, so it simply became a matter of the Italian marque finding him a spot with one of its satellite teams. That was eventually announced as Gresini in August and the 19-year-old will replace eight-time world champion Marquez.
The MotoGP legend was the biggest story of the rider market, as a U-turn saw Marquez land a spot with the factory Ducati squad instead of Martin. In 2024, Marquez has competed for Gresini in his first non-factory ride since joining MotoGP in 2013 after a title-winning stint with Honda.
And on the eve of the Italian Grand Prix, it appeared as though Ducati had decided to place Martin at its factory team with Marquez going to Pramac on works machinery. But the 31-year-old wasn’t happy, stating his only options were the works team or staying at Gresini on a factory bike.
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