MotoGP's newest outfit Trackhouse Racing has showcased its 2025 colour scheme in the first livery launch of the season.
The Aprilia customer outfit, which is entering its second campaign in not just the premier class but motorcycle racing as a whole, showed off a very different livery as part of a joint launch with its NASCAR team in Charlotte, North Carolina in the USA.
Its NASCAR machine was adorned in the same colours, but while NASCAR liveries rotate heavily during the season due to different sponsors for different races, the Aprilias Trackhouse will run this year should carry these colours for much of the campaign - but, the team suggested, not for every race.
"We changed the livery, this is now kind of our Trackhouse colour - but you will see something different also in a few races," said team boss Davide Brivio. "We're going to play a little bit with liveries during this season. Let's leave a little bit of surprise - this is one version, we'll have other versions."
Trackhouse had debuted with an American-themed livery last year, but pivoted to a more abstract livery concept midway through the season.
Its new colour scheme features the logo of iconic motorsport sponsor Gulf - which would be a natural subject for a one-off livery, like it has recently done in Formula 1.
Trackhouse will field Raul Fernandez and new signing Ai Ogura in 2025 and 2026, both Fernandez and Ogura contracted directly to Trackhouse now as opposed to its partner Aprilia.
But both should be racing on works-spec RS-GP bikes this year, having already run up to spec with the factory Aprilia team after the midway point of the 2024 campaign.
Miguel Oliveira - who hasn't been retained by the team and will now race for Pramac on a factory Yamaha contract - is responsible for Trackhouse's best MotoGP result so far, a sprint podium at the Sachsenring.
The team - headed up by aforementioned veteran MotoGP team manager Brivio - finished ninth in the teams' standings last year.
