Last year, the storyline that kept the MotoGP season alive in my heart, personally, was the brother vs. brother title fight between Marc and Alex Marquez. The former later took the title, but for a long while, it was nail-bitingly close, as the two traded barbs throughout the season, each inching ahead of each other at certain times. It was brilliant to watch, and it made Marc's title clincher all the more special.
But we're now past that, and while we haven't even begun to see what the 2026 MotoGP season will entail, as we're only at the start of testing, we're already firmly in silly season regarding rider changeups. Why? Because the 2027 season is set to be a complete overhaul of the motorcycles everyone's racing, a change that's so radical, everyone's already jockeying for who they think will come out on top of the regulation tossup.
Two riders are key to the talks, however, with one being Alex Marquez and the other Pedro Acosta. And the team the two are circling is that of Marc Marquez's triumphant Ducati factory squad. The question on everyone's minds, however, is whether Ducati will create one of the best storylines in recent racing history with a factory-backed Marquez ticket, or does it hedge on its future and that future being one with Acosta rising to replace Marc Marquez when he inevitably retires?
