Two MotoGP veterans - Aleix Espargaro and Takaaki Nakagami - will call time on their careers as full-time premier class riders at the conclusion of Sunday's Solidarity Grand Prix at Barcelona.
But their exits from the grid also directly mean that another long-time MotoGP presence is expecting to make his final start in the category.
Honda's 34-year-old tester Stefan Bradl is up to 130 starts in MotoGP (30th-most all-time), and will make his 131st on Sunday.
His full-time career had run its course at the end of 2016, after 86 starts, but Honda has had a lot of reason to call upon him since - whether in test rider wildcard capacity or as injury replacement, most notably for Marc Marquez through virtually all of the 2020 season after Marquez's career-altering injury.
But both Espargaro and Nakagami, in retiring, are moving into test rider roles at Honda.
Espargaro is its big-name signing to bolster its test team, having proven an accomplished development rider in his time at Suzuki and Aprilia, while Nakagami will move back to Japan from Europe to help improve the connection between the manufacturer side of Honda's MotoGP project and its Europe-based racing teams.
Honda has six wildcard outings available to it in its current concession status as a 'Rank D' manufacturer. It has used all six this season, all six with Bradl running, in addition to the countless private tests he's conducted given 'Rank D' gives greater scope for in-season development work.
"It's good for me," he insisted of Espargaro and Nakagami's role changes.
"I was having a lot of things to do in the last years, and it was a massive load on my shoulders, with testing all the things.
“I mean, I felt happy with it, because it means they trust me, and they are happy with the way I work with them.
“But now having Aleix for next year, also Taka, is nice because we need more, we need more opinions, we need more people to get the work done."
But both Espargaro and Nakagami are obvious candidates for wildcard outings - and Bradl is only too happy to cede the initiative.
"I think this is my last wildcard here,” he admitted.
“I am sure that for the future they will choose Aleix and Taka. Which I'm fine with and I also told them that I'm totally fine with that.
"They seem to have a little bit more speed, because they're still permanent riders [in 2024]. Maybe they can squeeze a little bit more out of the bike. But that's not our target. But in any case I think that we will do six wildcards next season, and done by Aleix and Taka.
"I think [this is my final start in MotoGP]. I came here with these thoughts, and I communicated to HRC [Honda Racing Corporation] like this, and I'm OK with it, I'm happy with it."
The 2011 Moto2 champion after a title fight with Marc Marquez, and subsequently a Honda tester who Marquez in particular came to value and champion as a Honda asset, Bradl is set to end his MotoGP career with a single pole and a single podium - both achieved as an LCR Honda rider at Laguna Seca in his sophomore season in 2013.
But while he admitted to German media that he could yet make a MotoGP race return if the rider set to do a wildcard is unavailable through injury, chances are this is it.
And it isn't a weird feeling, he insisted.
"I'm a long time here. I know how to handle this kind of situation.
"It's OK. 19 years ago I did my first wildcard here in Barcelona in 125[cc]. Now I'm probably doing my last race in MotoGP. It's a circle closing. We can close it and we would be fine."
