While MotoGP’s commercial rights holder and the teams are still finalising their new agreement – a deal that is expected to unlock the official announcement of next season’s rider market – 16 of the 22 bikes on the 2027 MotoGP grid already are settled.
Given how quickly the MotoGP market initially began moving ahead of next season, few would have imagined that at this stage of the year only one contract renewal would have been officially confirmed: Marco Bezzecchi’s extension with Aprilia, largely because the Noale manufacturer acted more impulsively than strategically.
