MotoGP podcast: Wild 2025 rider market is adding early pressure

With one MotoGP pre-season test down and one to go, several riders go into next week’s final two days of running in Qatar with significant problems to solve.

And those problems have implications beyond the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix and even the 2024 campaign too, given how wild this year’s rider market is set to be.

On The Race MotoGP Podcast this week, Simon Patterson, Valentin Khorounzhiy and Matt Beer look at who’s under pressure and how that pressure is multiplied by the moves teams will already be making towards their 2025 line-ups in a year when no more than four of the 22 riders on the grid have a contract for next season sorted.

Those 2025 prospects weigh on everything in MotoGP at the moment, with even Honda’s launch of its strikingly Repsol-light new livery touching upon the question of whether Marc Marquez will be back there as early as next year.

Speaking of Marc Marquez… he will be our very, very special guest for an exclusive interview on the next episode of The Race MotoGP Podcast, and we’ll put some of your questions to him. Send them to podcasts@the-race.com and we’ll pick a selection of the best to fit into Simon’s one-on-one with the seven-time MotoGP champion later this week.

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