The crew chief market is a pivotal under-the-radar part of every MotoGP silly season, as riders movements lead to reshuffles - whether that be through their crew chiefs following them into their new teams or them being paired up with new staff.
Here's how the 2025 MotoGP crew chief market shook out:
Ducati
Factory
Pecco Bagnaia - Cristian Gabarrini
Marc Marquez - Marco Rigamonti
VR46
Fabio di Giannantonio - Massimo Branchini
Franco Morbidelli - Matteo Flamigni
Gresini
Alex Marquez - Donatello Giovanotti
Fermin Aldeguer - Frankie Carchedi
Bagnaia unsurprisingly continues with crew chief extraordinaire Cristian Gabarrini - one of the biggest engineering names in the paddock, having worked with the likes of Casey Stoner, Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo.
Marquez's arrival on the other side of the works team garage pairs him up with Marco Rigamonti, who had worked with Marquez's predecessor in the seat Enea Bastianini.
Of Ducati's satellite teams, Gresini keeps the same roster. Alex Marquez - who partnered up with sophomore crew chief Donatello Giovanotti upon his arrival to the team in 2023 - continues with the Italian for a third year.
Title-winning crew chief Frankie Carchedi, who was MotoGP champion with Joan Mir at Suzuki and has won grands prix with Fabio Di Giannantonio and Marc Marquez at Gresini, will be tasked with overseeing Ducati-contracted rookie Fermin Aldeguer's adaptation to MotoGP.
On the VR46 side of things, the changes are bigger. Both Franco Morbidelli and his 2024 crew chief Massimo Branchini (a Moto2 title winner in the past with Augusto Fernandez) are making the Pramac-to-VR46 move - but not staying together.
Di Giannantonio, now on a works Ducati contract at VR46, happily pairs up with Branchini, who will be his fourth crew chief in four years in MotoGP and who Di Giannantonio intends to keep into 2026, too.
And Morbidelli links up with former Bezzecchi crew chief Matteo Flamigni - an engineer Morbidelli himself knows from way back.
KTM
Factory
Pedro Acosta - Paul Trevathan
Brad Binder - Andres Madrid
Tech3
Enea Bastianini - Alberto Giribuola
Maverick Vinales - Manu Cazeaux
Having overseen a successful MotoGP debut for Pedro Acosta at Tech3, Paul Trevathan follows Acosta into the works KTM team - where he'd already worked with the likes of Pol Espargaro and Miguel Oliveira in the past.
Incumbent Brad Binder sticks with crew chief Andres Madrid.
As for Tech3's all-new veteran line-up, both riders will have familiar crew chiefs in their corners.
Bastianini reunites with his former Gresini Ducati crew chief Alberto Giribuola, who had switched to KTM in 2023 as engineering coordinator, but went back to being crew chief again - seemingly in preparation for Bastianini's KTM move - in late-2024, replacing Alex Merhand at Augusto Fernandez's side.
Maverick Vinales, meanwhile, brings Manu Cazeaux along with him from Aprilia (having also worked with him very successfully at Suzuki).
Aprilia
Factory
Jorge Martin - Daniele Romagnoli
Marco Bezzecchi - Francesco Venturato
Trackhouse
Raul Fernandez - Noe Herrera
Ai Ogura - Giovanni Mattarollo
New MotoGP champion Jorge Martin is accompanied by his Pramac crew chief Daniele Romagnoli in making his big works move.
His new team-mate Bezzecchi will work with Francesco Venturato - who was performance engineer on Vinales' side of the garage.
At satellite team Trackhouse, Raul Fernandez continues with Noe Herrera - a crew chief he'd struck up great rapport with in Moto2 - while Ai Ogura inherits Giovanni Mattarollo from the departing Miguel Oliveira.
Yamaha
Factory
Fabio Quartararo - Diego Gubellini
Alex Rins - David Munoz
Pramac
Jack Miller - Giacomo Guidotti
Miguel Oliveira - Luca Ferraccioli
There's change in the factory Yamaha team, though not on Fabio Quartararo's side of the garage - with no reason at all to break up his potent long-term partnership with Diego Gubellini.
Alex Rins, however, will get a new crew chief. Patrick Primmer - who Rins had inherited from predecessor Morbidelli - is replaced by highly-rated VR46 crew chief David Munoz.
Pramac's Ducati-to-Yamaha move comes with an all-new rider roster - but also an all-new crew chief roster.
Jack Miller reunites with Giacomo Guidotti - who he knows from his past Pramac tenure, after which Guidotti had worked with Joan Mir and Luca Marini in the works Honda team.
And Oliveira's Pramac move marks the debut of a new crew chief in Luca Ferraccioli - who previously worked as a factory Ducati technician embedded in the VR46 garage.
Honda
Factory
Joan Mir - Santi Hernandez
Luca Marini - Christian Pupulin
LCR
Johann Zarco - David Garcia
Somkiat Chantra - Klaus Nohles
Change here, too - though not on the side of Honda's 2024 standout Johann Zarco, who remains with David Garcia at LCR, nor for works rider Joan Mir, who continues alongside Santi Hernandez (best known for his years of success with Marc Marquez).
LCR rookie Somkiat Chantra takes over Klaus Nohles from retiring predecessor Takaaki Nakagami.
And - in one of the big moves of the crew chief silly season - works rider Luca Marini swaps previous crew chief Guidotti for long-time Miller engineer Christian Pupulin.
Complete 2025 MotoGP crew chief list
Factory Ducati
Pecco Bagnaia - Cristian Gabarrini
Marc Marquez - Marco Rigamonti
VR46 Ducati
Fabio di Giannantonio - Massimo Branchini
Franco Morbidelli - Matteo Flamigni
Gresini Ducati
Alex Marquez - Donatello Giovanotti
Fermin Aldeguer - Frankie Carchedi
Factory KTM
Pedro Acosta - Paul Trevathan
Brad Binder - Andres Madrid
Tech3 KTM
Enea Bastianini - Alberto Giribuola
Maverick Vinales - Manu Cazeaux
Factory Aprilia
Jorge Martin - Daniele Romagnoli
Marco Bezzecchi - Francesco Venturato
Trackhouse Aprilia
Raul Fernandez - Noe Herrera
Ai Ogura - Giovanni Mattarollo
Factory Yamaha
Fabio Quartararo - Diego Gubellini
Alex Rins - David Munoz
Pramac Yamaha
Jack Miller - Giacomo Guidotti
Miguel Oliveira - Luca Ferraccioli
Factory Honda
Joan Mir - Santi Hernandez
Luca Marini - Christian Pupulin
LCR Honda
Johann Zarco - David Garcia
Somkiat Chantra - Klaus Nohles
