MotoGP is back, and with a bang with the longest season in world motorcycle championship history, star riders embarking on new adventures at different teams and Australian competitors in all three classes in 2025.
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The 2025 season begins with this weekend’s season-opener – for the first time – in Thailand at the Chang International Circuit (February 28-March 2) as MotoGP moves away from its traditional first chapter under lights in Qatar, with the 22nd and final round set for Valencia from November 14-16.
The Thailand curtain-raiser is a friendly time zone for the season to start for Aussie fans, with MotoGP qualifying (2.50pm AEST on Saturday March 1), the sprint race (7pm AEST) and Grand Prix (Sunday March 2 at 7pm AEST) the perfect way to get into what’s set to a seismic season.
More than half the riders on the grid will race for new teams in Thailand, Australia’s Jack Miller among them, while the same 11 teams who competed in 2024 are back again this season, Pramac Racing the one significant change after the team that won last year’s title with Jorge Martin changed from Ducati to Yamaha over the off-season.
Here’s your ultimate guide to the 77th season of the fastest two-wheel sport on the planet.
WHERE IS MOTOGP RACING IN 2025?
The scheduled 22 rounds for 2025 dwarfs the 20-round schedules of the past three years for the longest in the sport’s history, with a new race in Hungary (Round 14, August 22-24) coming on-stream as a trio of old favourites return.
Argentina (Round 2, March 14-16) fell off last year’s calendar after political instability in the country, while Brno in the Czech Republic – which hasn’t hosted MotoGP since 2020 – returns for Round 12 (July 18-20). Valencia – cancelled at the last-minute last year after devastating flooding in the region – resumes its typical season-ending slot for Round 22 (November 14-16).
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Australia, in the second-last year of its current contract, will retain its customary mid-October date at Phillip Island as part of the Asian flyaway leg that defines the end of the season, Round 19 set for Phillip Island from October 17-19.
With sprints staying on the calendar at every round for the third year running – half Grand Prix-distance races held on Saturdays for half-points – there’ll be 44 race starts and chances to score big in 2025.
The 2025 MotoGP calendar
Round 1, Feb 28-Mar 2: Thailand (Chang International Circuit)
Round 2, Mar 14-16: Argentina (Termas de Rio Hondo)
Round 3, Mar 28-30: USA (Circuit of the Americas, Texas)
Round 4, Apr 11-13: Qatar (Lusail International Circuit)
Round 5, Apr 25-27: Spain (Circuito de Jerez)
Round 6, May 9-11: France (Le Mans)
Round 7, May 23-25: Great Britain (Silverstone)
Round 8, Jun 6-8: Aragon (Motorland Aragon, Spain)
Round 9, Jun 20-22: Italy (Mugello)
Round 10, Jun 27-29: Netherlands (TT Circuit Assen)
Round 11, Jul 11-13: Germany (Sachsenring)
Round 12, Jul 18-20: Czechia (Autodromo Brno)
Round 13, Aug 15-17: Austria (Red Bull Ring, Spielberg)
Round 14, Aug 22-24: Hungary (Balaton Park)
Round 15, Sept 5-7: Catalonia (Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya)
Round 16, Sept 12-14: San Marino (Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli)
Round 17, Sept 26-28: Japan (Motegi)
Round 18, Oct 3-5: Indonesia (Mandalika)
Round 19, Oct 17-19: Australia (Phillip Island)
Round 20, Oct 24-26: Malaysia (Sepang)
Round 21, Nov 7-9: Portugal (Portimao)
Round 22, Nov 14-16: Valencia (Circuit Ricardo Tormo)
WHICH RIDERS ARE ON THE 2025 MOTOGP GRID?
There’s three rookies set to debut in Thailand this weekend, with last year’s Moto2 champion Ai Ogura (Japan) stepping up with Aprilia for Trackhouse Racing, and former Moto2 rivals Fermin Aldeguer (Spain) and Thai local hero Somkiat Chantra starting their MotoGP stories with Gresini Ducati and LCR Honda respectively.
Gone from the 2024 grid are Spaniard Aleix Espargaro (from Aprilia to a test rider role with Honda), compatriot Augusto Fernandez (from Tech3 KTM to a test rider role with Yamaha), and Japanese veteran Takaaki Nakagami, who’ll serve as a tester for Honda after his retirement.
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While 19 of last year’s 22 riders are back, nine of them changed teams – and six changed both teams and manufacturers – making pre-season testing in Malaysia and Thailand more crucial than ever.
Testing threw a giant early-season spanner in the works when Martin, on his first 2025 outing with Aprilia after winning last year’s title, crashed and broke his right hand and left foot on the first day, meaning he missed the final four days of pre-season running and will begin his title defence this weekend with just 13 laps of familiarisation with his 2025-spec RS-GP machine under his belt.
Ducati’s Fabio Di Giannantonio faces his own race against the clock to be ready for round one, the Italian breaking his left collarbone after a crash in Malaysia and missing the Thailand test altogether.
Australia’s Miller begins his 11th MotoGP campaign with his fourth manufacturer, the 30-year-old riding a Yamaha for the first time for Pramac Racing, who he raced a Ducati for from 2018-20.
The 2025 MotoGP grid
No. 1: Jorge Martin (27 years old, Spain) – Aprilia Racing
5: Johann Zarco (35, France) – LCR Honda
10: Luca Marini (27, Italy) – Honda HRC Castrol
12: Maverick Vinales (30, Spain) – Red Bull Tech3 KTM
20: Fabio Quartararo (25, France) – Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP
21: Franco Morbidelli (30, Italy) – Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team (Ducati)
23: Enea Bastianini (27, Italy) – Red Bull Tech3 KTM
25: Raul Fernandez (24, Spain) – Trackhouse MotoGP Team (Aprilia)
33: Brad Binder (29, South Africa) – Red Bull KTM Factory Racing
35: Somkiat Chantra (26, Thailand) – LCR Honda
36: Joan Mir (27, Spain) – Honda HRC Castrol
37: Pedro Acosta (20, Spain) – Red Bull KTM Factory Racing
42: Alex Rins (29, Spain) – Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP
43: Jack Miller (30, Australia) – Prima Pramac Yamaha
49: Fabio Di Giannantonio (26, Italy) – Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team (Ducati)
54: Fermin Aldeguer (19, Spain) – Gresini Racing MotoGP (Ducati)
63: Francesco Bagnaia (27, Italy) – Ducati Lenovo Team
72: Marco Bezzecchi (26, Italy) – Aprilia Racing
73: Alex Marquez (28, Spain) – Gresini Racing MotoGP (Ducati)
79: Ai Ogura (24, Japan) – Trackhouse MotoGP Team (Aprilia)
88: Miguel Oliveira (30, Portugal) – Prima Pramac Yamaha
93: Marc Marquez (32, Spain) – Ducati Lenovo Team
WHICH TEAMS ARE ON THE 2025 MOTOGP GRID?
The same 11 teams who raced in 2024 return, but the imbalance of last year’s grid – eight Ducatis, four bikes from KTM, Aprilia and Honda and just two for Yamaha – has been partially redressed by Pramac Racing switching to Yamaha, doubling the Japanese brand’s presence and watering-down Ducati’s numerical advantage.
Both KTM teams – the main factory team and customer Tech3 squad – will run near-identical orange liveries, while Honda’s factory team – clad in orange as far back as the mid 1990s and Mick Doohan’s golden era through its enduring sponsorship with Spanish petroleum behemoth Repsol – will compete under the name of Honda HRC Castrol with Joan Mir and Luca Marini and sport a very different, predominantly red, paint job.
The 2025 MotoGP teams (by manufacturer)
Aprilia: Aprilia Racing (Martin, Bezzecchi), Trackhouse (Fernandez, Ogura)
Ducati: Ducati Lenovo (Bagnaia, M. Marquez), VR46 (Morbidelli, Di Giannantonio), Gresini (A. Marquez, Aldeguer)
Honda: Honda HRC (Mir, Marini), LCR (Zarco, Chantra)
KTM: KTM Factory (Binder, Acosta), Tech3 (Vinales, Bastianini)
Yamaha: Yamaha Factory (Quartararo, Rins), Pramac (Miller, Oliveira)
WHAT MOTOGP RULES AND REGULATIONS HAVE CHANGED FOR 2025?
MotoGP’s brave new world – the 2027 category reset that will see the current 1000cc bikes replaced by 850cc machinery with a ban on aerodynamic rider aids, ride-height devices and a reduction in fuel – means changes are minimal for this season, but nonetheless significant in certain areas.
One is engines: manufacturers must decide on an engine and freeze its development this season for the 2025 and 2026 campaigns, while another is tyre supplier Michelin bringing a new front tyre for the teams after the increased use of aero last season spiked front tyre pressures, leaving riders susceptible to post-race penalties and increased the risk of front-end crashes under braking.
WHO ARE THE OTHER AUSSIES IN ACTION?
Australia will have representatives in all three world championship classes again in 2025, with Senna Agius backing up for his second full-time campaign in Moto2, and compatriots Joel Kelso and Jacob Roulstone on the Moto3 entry-level grid once more.
Agius, 19, returns for the Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP team riding a Kalex after finishing 18th overall last year, the highlight coming when he took his maiden world championship podium at home with third at Phillip Island last October.
Darwin’s Kelso, 21, moves to the Level Up MTA team for his fourth Moto3 season after finishing ninth in the 2024 standings.
Wollongong’s Roulstone, 20, will miss the opening few rounds of his second full season riding a KTM for the Tech3 squad after breaking a vertebra in his neck in a training crash at Jerez in January.
HOW CAN I WATCH MOTOGP IN 2025?
Australian fans can watch every MotoGP practice, qualifying session, sprint race and Grand Prix live and ad-break free from lights out to the chequered flag on Fox Sports and Kayo.
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