If we exclude the KTM pair, indeed the quartet, in 2025 for well-known reasons, we will probably see no changes in the starting grid lineup over the next two seasons.
There are, it has to be said, a few protagonists with a one-year contract, from Jack Miller in Yamaha-Pramac to Franco Morbidelli with Ducati-VR46, but any such shifts would not be enough to cry out in amazement as, for example, Marc Marquez's move from Honda-HRC to Ducati-Gresini in 2024.
Or the one, no less unexpected, of Luca Marini from his brother Valentino's 'home' team to Honda.
Quite different however will be the situation at the end of 2026, when the manufacturers will tackle the new season with the new 850cc motorcycles, decreased aerodynamics and without lowerers.
A revolution that, in the intentions of the rulemakers should result in not only lower costs - this is relative, because building a completely new vehicle will cost more than improving existing ones - but more spectacle.
Motorcycles more to ride than to understand and exploit thanks to the many parafernalia of the current ones.
An early indication of what will happen, however, we will understand as early as this 2025, and it will depend a great deal on the performance of the protagonists within the current teams.
Regardless of whether they have in their hands the best bike of the moment, the Ducati, or as may happen a Honda or a Yamaha not yet up to the competition, the managers of the manufacturers and those of the riders will begin to look around in order to hope to have the best riders on the new bikes.
And while it is true that until the end of 2026 nothing can change, barring any twists and turns, it is also undeniable that starting in late 2025 and continuing into 2026, the rider transfer market will start under the radar, but will explode soon because it is unimaginable that 2027 can get underway without twists and turns.
Who may the protagonists be? Well, there is not much guesswork required: obviously the best of the just passed 2024 season, if they are able to confirm their form this year.
And so that means Jorge Martin, Francesco Bagnaia, Marc Marquez, Pedro Acosta.
Secondly, Fabio Quartararo, should Yamaha fail to maintain its promises, Enea Bastianini, should KTM as it seems not see the end of 2026, and maybe Fabio Di Giannantonio, should he continue his improvement on the Ducati.
But let's face it, though, just one move of one of the frontrunners, with only Quartararo added, would be nine-column news, as they used to say, comparable to Lewis Hamilton's move this year from Mercedes to Ferrari.
On the other hand, however, only one move would shake MotoGP from its foundations: that of Pecco Bagnaia from Ducati to Honda!
And believe us, it will be HRC, two seasons on from now, that will shake up the category because there is no doubt that it will want to hire the two best riders in the world.
And if we really don't see Marquez going back on his steps, Pecco might give in to the lure of the Rising Sun, as might his old teammate in 125 cc days Jorge Martin. Or the young up-and-comer Pedro Acosta.
In the meantime, just to see how they would look in their new colors, we've already pictured them like this...thanks to AI.
