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

KTM
Th💃e 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▨ from Moꦫto2.
But since promiꩵsing him a seat, Dorna have denied KTM’s requesꦇt for a fifth bike, leaving them with a headache.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Miller feistily reminꦗded us that 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5最新开奖结果:Brad Binder.
Tech3 GASGAS’ 168澳洲5最新开奖结果: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 𝔉fill in for injuries at KTM’s factory and satellite teams.
Augusto Fernandez, once th❀e obvious choice to be moved away, has been rewarded with a 2024 contract so looks guaranteed to stay put.
Honda
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez is the big question. He is contracted for 2ꦛ024 but Honda have been so underwhelming that reports continue to swirl that he might move next season.
Alberto Pui🌼g insisted nobody would be forced to stay, and KTM admit🍎ted 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 continue to insist that Marquez will never ride for them, but should today’s most successful rider truly become available, could today’s most dominant team really ܫresist him?
Joan Mir considered retirement, such is the disappointment of his debut Repsol Honda season. He is so keen to escape that he has r🧸eportedly offered his own services to Gresini Ducati (Iker Lecuona would be a straightforward replacement for Mir꧟).
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Takaaki Nakagami is so often questioned, with Ai Ogura always lurking in the background, but his ౠplace appears secure due to the doubt over the factory duo.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果: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5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia’s future. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Enea Bastianini has also been backed, despite his injury-interrupted season, bu🐽t will be feeling the pressure 🦋to remind Ducati of his talent soon.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin was a candidate to join Yamaha but will now stay 𒉰with Pramac.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Johann Zarco has quit Pramac to join LCR Honda (s🌃wapping the best bi🔯ke 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5最新开奖结果:Marco Bezzecchi.
Bezzecchi instead chose to stay alongside 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luca Marini at Mooney VR46, meaning the Pramac vacancy🍨 is the only free s♔eat currently up for grabs.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Marquez has been given a new contract to stay at Gresini, but the place of his teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio di Giannantonio is constantly in doubt.
But, Moto2 duo Tony Arbolino and Jake Dixon, who were both linked🌠 to the Gresini seat, have now signed new contracts to stay where they are.
Di Giannantonio c♚oul𝐆d cling onto his at-risk seat if the contenders rule themselves out.
Franco Morbidelli remains an obvious candidate for either the Pramℱac or Gresini🌞 seats.
Yamaha
The Japanese manufacturer chose to get rid of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Franco Morbidelli in favour of Alex Rins.
Their bigger headache is star rider 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Quartararo - he’s made it pretty clear that, if he doesn’t see significant progress at the upcoming Misano 👍test, he’ll look around for a better bike somewhere else.
Qua♏rtararo is contracted for 2024 but the interest could begin to queue up for 2025.
Aprilia
No drama here. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Aleix Espargaro and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Maverick Vinales at the factory team, and RNF’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Miguel Oliveira and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Raul Fernandez, will all stay. Eventually, though, Aprilia will need to think long-term about who replaces veteran duo Espargaro a🎃nd Vinales.

Jam🦹es🦂 was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.