MotoGP silly season is in full swing, who’s the next shock move?

KTM
🌊The Austrian manufacturer are at the heart of silly season because they currently have five riders but only four bikes.
Pedro Acosta has been assured of a premier class place having moved up fr🦩om Moto2.
But since ♕promising him a seat, Dorna have denied KꦜTM’s request for a fifth bike, leaving them with a headache.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller feistily reminded us t♉hat he has a contract for 2024, yet DAZN reported that he could the shock victim of this situation, if KTM can’t find a way to add Acosta to their existing bunch.
No such rumours have plagued Miller’s factory teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Brad Binder.
Tech3 GASGAS’ 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pol Espargaro🥀 has been linked with becoming their test and reserve rider. This is if KTM can agree to having six wildcards next year. Espargaro would also fill in fo🌟r injuries at KTM’s factory and satellite teams.
Augusto Fernandez, once the obvious choice to be moved away, has been rewarded with a 2024🧸 contract so looks guaranteed to stay put.
Honda
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez is the big question. He is contracted for 2024 but Honda have been so underwhelming that reports continဣue to swirl that he might move next season.
Alberto Pu⛎ig insisted nobody would be forced to🐽 stay, and KTM admitted they tried and failed to lure Marquez for next season.
Ducati’s two vacant seats - at Pramac and alongside his brother at Gresini - also emerged as shock destinations. Ducati conti💝nue to insist thꦍat Marquez will never ride for them, but should today’s most successful rider truly become available, could today’s most dominant team really resist him?
Joan Mir considered retirement, such is the disappointment of his debut Repsol Honda season. He is so keen to escape that h🅰e has reportedly offered his own services to Gresini Ducati (Iker Lecꦏuona would be a straightforward replacement for Mir).
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Takaaki Nakagami is so often questioned, with Ai Ogura always lurking in the background, but his place appears 🍰secure due 🍒to the doubt over the factory duo.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Rins, Nakagami’s LCR teammate, has already confirmed 🌜he will leave - after one grand prix win and one broken leg representing Honda - to join Yamaha.
Ducati
There’s no doubt over factory rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia’s future. 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Enea Bastianini has also been backed, despite his injury-interrupted season, but willಌ be feeling the pressure to remind Ducati of his talent soon.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin was a candidate to join Yamaha bu♔t will now stay with Pramac.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Johann Zarco has quit Pramac to join LCR Honda (sw⛦apping the best bike for the worst but due to the longer contract), creating a vacancy.
Pramac are contractually entitled to a 2024-spec Desmosedici next year, which in Zarco’s absence was offered to Mooney VR46’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marco Bezzecchi.
Bezzecchi instead chose to stay alongside 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Luca Marini at Mooney VR46, meaning the Pramac vacancy is the only🀅 free seat currently up for grabs.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez has been given a new contract to stay at Gresini, but the place of his teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio di Giannantonio is constantly in doubt.
But, Moto2 duo Tony Arbolino and Jake Dixon, who were both linked to t♔he Gresini seat, have now signed new contracts to stay where they ღare.
Di Giannantonio could cling onto his at-risk seat if the contenders rule themselvesꦉ out.
Franc💞o Morbidelli remains an obvious candidate for either the Pramac or Gresini seats.
Yamaha
The Japanese manufacturer chose to get rid of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Franco Morbidelli in favour of Alex Rins.
Their bigger headache is star rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo - he’s made𝓡 it pretty clear that, if he doesn’t see significant progress at the upcoming Misano test, he’ll look aro🍬und for a better bike somewhere else.
Quartararo is contracted for 2024 but the i🎐nterest could begin to queue up for 2025.
Aprilia
No drama here. 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales at the factory team, and RNF’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Miguel Oliveira and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Raul Fernandez, will all stay. Eventually, though, Aprilia will need to think long-term about who rꦛeplaces veteran duo Espargaro and Vinales.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F♛1.