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A second seismic team change for Marc Marquez in as many years will headline a 2025 MotoGP entry list largely unrecognisable from its predecessor.
But much of that entry list still remains a moving target, with most manufacturers yet to fully crystallise their rider plans, satellite teams waiting in the wings to see what MotoGP-proven riders will lose out in the game of musical chairs and what Moto2 stars will make the biggest impression.
Not to mention, it is still unclear what the exact make-up of the grid will be in terms of machinery.
Below is the 2025 MotoGP grid as it currently stands.
Factory teams
Ducati
Pecco Bagnaia (Italy, born 1997)
Marc Marquez (Spain, 1993)
The most successful manufacturer in MotoGP for the last few years will welcome a six-time champion into its factory team in Marc Marquez, creating a mouth-watering and potentially volatile combination with established franchise rider Pecco Bagnaia.
Things have remained largely cordial between Marquez and Bagnaia - even after a crash at Jerez - but the latter's status as Marquez arch-rival Valentino Rossi's most successful protege is inescapable context.
However, even without that context, the simple fact is these are two riders who will head into 2025 with the title as their only goal - but they can't both win it.
KTM
Pedro Acosta (Spain, 2004)
Brad Binder (South Africa, 1995)
Pedro Acosta's form as a MotoGP rookie has already confirmed his status as a transcendent talent and a game changer, with a multi-year new contract and a promotion to the factory team for 2025 from satellite outfit Tech3 the easiest rider decision KTM will have ever made.
Acosta's emergence has taken the shine off KTM's previous standard-bearer Brad Binder - who had earned a contract extension back in 2023 - to the point where KTM had even left the door slightly ajar to Binder being shifted into Tech3.
This has not happened, and a Tech3 line-up of two other riders is now in place, but it's Acosta who KTM will see right now as its likeliest ticket to a title - perhaps as early as 2025.
Aprilia
Jorge Martin (Spain, 1998)
Marco Bezzecchi (Italy, 1998)
Faced with one Ducati factory team rejection too many, Martin immediately jumped into Aprilia's willing arms, becoming the biggest free agent signing in its history - with even the possibility that he'll bring the champion's #1 plate with him.
Martin has been positioned as a direct replacement for his great friend Aleix Espargaro, who is stepping aside from full-time competition at the end of the year and leaving the Aprilia fold completely to become a Honda development rider.
On the other side of the garage, Aprilia had made it clear that it intends to continue with incumbent Maverick Vinales - but Vinales himself had other intentions, putting pen to paper with Tech3 KTM.
And with another potential target in Enea Bastianini also off the table, it means Aprilia quickly pivoted to Marco Bezzecchi to complete an all-new line-up created from current top Ducati satellite riders.
Yamaha
Fabio Quartararo (France, 1999)
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While things aren't so rosy on track, Yamaha completed its big silly season mission for 2024 by hanging on to its talisman Fabio Quartararo - who had snapped a five-year title drought for the factory back in 2021.
Paddock chatter suggests it has been doing some form of due diligence on who will partner Quartararo going forward, but incumbent Alex Rins looks a no-brainer to earn an extension - both as a grand prix winner with a track record for developmental acumen, and as a rider who is already challenging Quartararo over one lap (even if there's a gap in race pace).
Honda
Luca Marini (Italy, 1997)
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Luca Marini has on the whole been the fourth-fastest of Honda's four regular riders - across the works team and the satellite LCR team - in 2024, but an early termination of the initial deal the two parties had signed to cover both '24 and '25 seems out of the question.
Marini, brought in from the Ducati camp, appears to be valued as a development asset and a reassuringly pragmatic presence - but Honda is also probably the least likely factory to try to force a mid-contract split.
And there's also the fact that the RC213V is unlikely to attract all that many suitors, as evidenced by Marini's team-mate Joan Mir's public pining for a future outside of Honda's project. He's since sounded more amenable to staying put, and the arrival of Espargaro on the development side may help.
Satellite teams
Gresini/VR46
Fermin Aldeguer (Spain, 2005) - team TBA
Alex Marquez (Spain, 1996) - Gresini
Ducati's new signing Fermin Aldeguer - a 19-year-old brought in on the strength of a mesmerising end to last year's Moto2 campaign - will ride for one of its satellite teams.
Normally this would be Pramac, but Ducati's long-term second-in-command team is leaving for Yamaha so Aldeguer (and the ex-Pramac top-spec bikes) will land with Gresini or VR46.
The only rider confirmed at either team so far is Alex Marquez staying at the Gresini team his brother Marc is leaving.
Fabio Di Giannantonio is in demand but seems keen to stay with Valentino Rossi's VR46 team, which is also seen as a logical home for Rossi protege Franco Morbidelli - currently at Pramac but highly unlikely to follow it to Yamaha given his unsuccessful recent seasons there.
Pramac
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We know Pramac is switching manufacturers, but who gets those Yamahas is very much up in the air.
Di Giannantonio is a target, but wants to be on potentially winning machinery in 2025 and a Pramac Yamaha is unlikely to be that.
Past Pramac riders such as KTM refugee Jack Miller or even recent post-ban racing returnee Andrea Iannone have been mooted, and given Pramac's history of young riders it could be interested in looking at rising stars outside MotoGP such as Sergio Garcia or Alonso Lopez.
Tech3
Enea Bastianini (Italy, 1997)
Maverick Vinales (Spain, 1995)
Bastianini and Vinales have been unveiled as the team's all-new 2025 line-up, corresponding with a return to it being identified again as a satellite KTM operation rather than carrying the colours of fellow Pierer Mobility Group brand Gas Gas.
A KTM ride always seemingly Bastianini's fallback for when he missed out on keeping his Ducati seat, but luring Vinales over is more of a surprise given his renewal with Aprilia seemed like the way to go for both parties.
Instead, both of the Tech3 rides have been filled by established grand prix winners from other manufacturers - leaving Jack Miller and Augusto Fernandez on the job market.
Trackhouse
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MotoGP's newest team, albeit now spearheaded by one of its most revered team bosses in Davide Brivio, is yet to make a concrete move on the rider market - but has acknowledged it expects to have a solid amount of options.
Those options should include its current riders Miguel Oliveira and Raul Fernandez, who have been relatively evenly-matched in 2024 - albeit with Fernandez on an older-spec bike compared to Oliveira's up-to-date machine.
Of the two, Fernandez is the one who more clearly expressed both a desire to stay and an optimism that it will happen.
American Moto2 frontrunner Joe Roberts has been positioned as a no-brainer candidate, but Aprilia Racing CEO Massimo Rivola indicated that he didn't believe Trackhouse would go for a rookie rider given the experienced options expected to be on the market. One of those options, the aforementioned Mir, won a MotoGP title under Brivio at Suzuki in 2020.
LCR Honda
Johann Zarco (France, 1990)
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Johann Zarco could be a logical option for a promotion to the factory Honda team, but don't expect that to happen - as both Zarco and, unsurprisingly, LCR - seem to favour him staying at the team for the full duration of his contract (spanning 2024-25) and Honda is unlikely to want to rock the boat.
The other side of the LCR garage is backed by Japanese sponsor Idemitsu so will presumably continue to require a Japanese rider. Takaaki Nakagami has fulfilled the requirement since his MotoGP debut and a re-signing would not be unthinkable - but the time might finally be right for Moto2 ace Ai Ogura to take over the ride for his MotoGP debut instead.
