How five words from Marc Márquez dynamited the 2025 MotoGP market

The challenge launched by Marc Marquez at Ducati on May 30, when he dropped “the bomb” in the middle of the paddock at the Mugello circuit, in Italy, warning that “Pramac is not an option”completely dynamited the grid and driver market for the 2025 seasontransforming it into a veritable earthquake of movements.

Suddenly, in less than 24 hours and in this order: Enea Bastianini accepted KTM’s offer run with Tech3 knowing that Ducati was going to remove him from the official team; Jorge Martin related to Aprilia understanding that the House of Bologna was going to betray him for the second time in less than two years; And Marc Márquez succeededand just months after giving up a lucrative contract as an official Honda rider, signed with a new manufacturer to race in the most sought after factory team today, the red.

This was not the only consequence of the tsunami caused by Márquez’s sentence, since Martín arrived at Aprilia without him realizing it Maverick Vinalesled the Catalan to also go to KTM Tech3, opening the door of the Noala house to Marco Bezzecchiwhose departure of VR46 led to the arrival of Franco Morbidelli and, also, by twist, the exit of Augusto Fernández of Tech3, who will be part of the Yamaha Test team in 2025.

A gesture, that of Márquez, which has transformed this year’s drivers’ market into one of the busiest in history, if not the busiest, and which will bring us this Sunday, in Barcelona, ​​to witness the “last dance ” particular of a large number of riders, who will change teams, garages, jobs or, quite simply, say goodbye, as is the case of Aleix Espargarowho retires after this last race on his national circuit.

All this not to mention that Márquez’s rejection of Pramac also ended with Paolo Campinoti’s team leaving Ducati after two decades of relationship as a satellite structure, to embrace Yamaha, which will have four motorcycles in 2025, which introduces two new changes, that of Jack Miller with KTM and that of Miguel Oliveira with Trackhuse-Aprilia, both intended for the new Pramac-Yamaha.

The shockwave of Márquez’s Ordago

The effect of the wave produced by Márquez’s sentence affected, in one way or another, eleven of the fifteen most important movements of the 2025 grid, those of Marc himself, Martín, Bastianini, Viñales, Bezzecchi, Miller, Oliveira, Morbidelli, Augusto, and the Pramac team; and there is yet another “damaged” person, Fermin Aldeguer. The young Spanish rider, signed with Ducati last January, signed convinced he was going to make his MotoGP debut with the semi-official Pramac team, but circumstances placed him in the garage of Gresini Racingreplacing Marc and with a motorcycle from the previous year.

In addition to Espargaró’s farewell, a decision announced in May, the only MotoGP rider who changes team next year and whose maneuver is not contaminated by the shock wave of Márquez’s sentence, is Pedro Acosta, that before what happened at Mugello, had already reached an agreement to promote the official KTM factory team, in collaboration with Brad Bindereven if The announcement was made precisely on June 1, precisely the day after Márquez’s now famous sentence. Certainly KTM saw the magnitude of what was happening and wanted to make the deal public to avoid temptation. of its rivals.

Besides Aldeguer, who will travel to Barcelona after his injury to try to compete in the last race of the season with Boscoscurotwo other beginners come to MotoGP from the intermediate class of Moto2, the Thai Somkiat Chantrawho will ride with LCR-Honda, and the Japanese Ai Ogurawho will do it with Trackhouse-Aprilia, two maneuvers which, on paper, have nothing to do with Márquez’s already famous declaration at Mugello.

Teams and riders for the 2025 MotoGP season