2027 MotoGP starting grid: Gresini Ducati snaps up a fast youngster

The 2027 MotoGP World Championship will see several new arrivals, with long-serving riders in the premier class having to make way for them. Joining the soon-to-be Superbike World Champion Nicolo Bulega, who will be racing for Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Ducati team alongside Fermin Aledguer, will be four to six riders from the Moto2 World Championship. Of the current top six – Manuel Gonzalez, Izan Guevara, Senna Agius, David Alonso, Celestino Vietti and Daniel Holgado – all are in advanced talks with MotoGP teams.

Holgado has now been the first to be confirmed: as has been known for some time, the 21-year-old from Alicante will ride for Team Gresini Ducati next year, where he will have former world champion Joan Mir as his team-mate.

This means that, following Fermin Aldeguer, Ducati has secured another promising young rider who has celebrated seven GP victories so far in his career – four in the Moto3 class and three in the Moto2 class. In 2024, Holgado finished as Moto3 World Championship runner-up with the Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 team.

Izan Guevara will ride for Pramac Yamaha alongside Toprak Razgatlioglu, whilst Honda has secured the services of David Alonso. Official confirmation of both riders is still pending, as is that of Joan Mir.

Gonzalez and Agius are both in talks with KTM regarding a place in the Tech3 team run by South Tyrolean Günther Steiner, as well as with Trackhouse Aprilia. Vietti would also like to join that team. For any of the three to join American Justin Marks’ team, it would require Raul Fernandez not to remain with the team – a rider in whom KTM also has an interest. Enea Bastianini is a confirmed signing for Trackhouse.

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