wuqian0821.com writers predict which storyline could explode in MotoGP this season...

Lewis Duncan: KTM’s future will be the major talking point of the 2025 season. The🃏 Austrian manufacturer’s financial crisis is having a major impact on its racing programmes.

Across the board it has had to sc♓ale back its factory presence. While MotoGP will go ahead as planned in 2025, there is a “planned” withdrawal set for 2026 under the marque’s current r🎃estructuring process.

There is every chance that the racing division can have its future safeguarded, but this is a very fluid situation and one that will surely have🍷 more twists before🃏 it is resolved.

Peter McLaren: Aside from the world championship battle, KTM’s worrying financial situation has so many implications f༒or MotoGP, which already has the delayed Liberty deal to navigate.

Thankfully, the KTM🌺 MotoGP project looks safe for 2025, but there’s a question mark over 2026 and especially whether the RC16 will continue under the new 850cc rule✤s from 2027.

Most other manufacturers are expected to put a prototype 850cc bike on track by the e𓂃nd of this year.

The uncertainly is sure to 💃play on the minds of not only KTM’s four riders - its s𓆏trongest ever MotoGP line-up of Pedro Acosta, Brad Binder, Maverick Vinales and Enea Bastianini - but also team members.

Rival teams won’t hesitate to pick off riders or keಌy person💫nel if they become available, adding to KTM’s woes.

On♏ the positive side, if KTM’s quest for investment results in global motorsport superstar Lewis Hamilton becoming part of MotoGP it would only be good 🅘for the sport.

Jordan Moreland: Jorge Martin a꧃nd Aprilia. It will be interesting to watch Martin's temperament throughout the season, especially if things don't go how🍸 he wants it. He is the World Champion, he has high expectations of himself. But let's see if he can guide Aprilia in the right direction.

Alex Whitworth: The Bagnaia-Marquez battle really could blow up into something, but the apparently impending collapse of one of the championship’s five manufacturers – KTM – has the potential𝐆 to drown out almost all of the sporting conversation this year.

Especially as they currently hold contracts for the m🔥ost exciting rider in MotoGP, Pedro Acosta, and – through CFMoto Aspar – the contract to the most exciting rider in the lower classes: David Alonso.

The loss of KTM from MotoG൲P really would be seismic, especially with the 2027 rule change looming ever larger.

Derry Munikartono: I don’t want to talk about ‘the battle in Red’ between Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia,ꦰ as I’ve had enoug🐻h of it already.

For me, the impending takeov🌄er of MotoGP by Liberty media would be one of the most interesting storylines💖 for the 2025 season.

Liberty’s takeover of Dorna, who manages🧔 the commercial aspect of MotoGP, gives us a glimpse of upward trajectory for the series, as they did with Formula 1.

Since acquiring F1 back in 2017, Liberty rapidly boosted the series into one of - if not the most - popular sporting spectacle in the world. Some people in the MotoGP community expect the same when they take o🥀ver the motorcycle counterpart.

But there is one problem with theไ investigation of antitrust law with the European Union (EU) that postponed the takeover until mid-2025. As much as the excitement of the takeover prospect, we need to wait for the verdict before welcoming Liberty media wi🥂th high hopes.