Official confirmation at Misano on Thursday that Jack Miller will return to Pramac on a factory Yamaha deal to coincide with his old team's switch from Ducati means the 2025 MotoGP line-up is complete.
Pramac and Yamaha have decided to bank on experience for the first year of their new venture together, pairing current Trackhouse Aprilia rider Miguel Oliveira and outgoing KTM rider Miller rather than picking a rookie such as Moto2 title contender Sergio Garcia.
Miller previously raced for Pramac from 2018-20 before securing his works Ducati promotion, scoring nine podiums as well as being entrusted with development work for the factory.
A second seismic team change for Marc Marquez in as many years headlines a 2025 MotoGP entry list that's largely unrecognisable from its predecessor.
Here's the full rundown of the 2025 grid and what's changed:
Factory teams
Ducati
Pecco Bagnaia (Italy, born 1997)
Marc Marquez (Spain, 1993)
The most successful manufacturer in MotoGP for the last few years will welcome a six-time champion into its factory team in Marc Marquez, creating a mouth-watering and potentially volatile combination with established franchise rider Pecco Bagnaia.
Things have remained largely cordial between Marquez and Bagnaia - even after a crash at Jerez - but the latter's status as Marquez's arch-rival Valentino Rossi's most successful protege is inescapable context.
However, even without that context, the simple fact is these are two riders who will head into 2025 with the title as their only goal - but they can't both win it.
KTM
Pedro Acosta (Spain, 2004)
Brad Binder (South Africa, 1995)
Pedro Acosta's form as a MotoGP rookie has already confirmed his status as a transcendent talent and a game changer, with a multi-year new contract and a promotion to the factory team for 2025 from satellite outfit Tech3 the easiest rider decision KTM will have ever made.
Acosta's emergence has taken the shine off KTM's previous standard-bearer Brad Binder - who had earned a contract extension back in 2023 - to the point where KTM had even left the door slightly ajar to Binder being shifted into Tech3.
This has not happened, and a Tech3 line-up of two other riders is now in place, but it's Acosta who KTM will see right now as its likeliest ticket to a title - perhaps as early as 2025.
Aprilia
Jorge Martin (Spain, 1998)
Marco Bezzecchi (Italy, 1998)
Faced with one Ducati factory team rejection too many, Martin immediately jumped into Aprilia's willing arms, becoming the biggest free agent signing in its history - with even the possibility that he'll bring the champion's #1 plate with him.
Martin has been positioned as a direct replacement for his great friend Aleix Espargaro, who is stepping aside from full-time competition at the end of the year and leaving the Aprilia fold completely to become a Honda development rider.
On the other side of the garage, Aprilia had made it clear that it intended to continue with incumbent Maverick Vinales - but Vinales himself had other intentions, putting pen to paper with Tech3 KTM.
And with another potential target in Enea Bastianini also off the table, it meant Aprilia quickly pivoted to Marco Bezzecchi to complete an all-new line-up created from current top Ducati satellite riders.
Yamaha
Fabio Quartararo (France, 1999)
Alex Rins (Spain, 1995)
While things aren't so rosy on track, Yamaha completed its big silly season mission for 2024 by hanging on to its talisman Fabio Quartararo - who had snapped a five-year title drought for the factory back in 2021.
Paddock chatter suggests it had done some form of due diligence on who will partner Quartararo going forward, but incumbent Alex Rins was confirmed as staying on after the summer break.
Honda
Luca Marini (Italy, 1997)
Joan Mir (Spain, 1997)
Luca Marini has on the whole been the fourth-fastest of Honda's four regular riders - across the works team and the satellite LCR team - in 2024, but an early termination of the initial deal the two parties had signed to cover both '24 and '25 is out of the question, especially as he's progressed hugely as of late.
Marini, brought in from the Ducati camp, is also valued as a development asset and a reassuringly pragmatic presence.
Team-mate Joan Mir sounded like he was prioritising alternate employment for 2025 for much of this year, but came around on the idea of re-signing with Honda despite a lack of obvious on-track progress - signing a two-year extension.
Satellite teams
VR46
Fabio di Giannantonio (Italy, 1998)
Franco Morbidelli (Italy, 1994)
Current VR46 rider Fabio di Giannantonio will get the sole 2025-spec Ducati on offer to a satellite team next year, in a new deal for a rider whose whole MotoGP future looked in doubt this time last year.
Long-time Valentino Rossi protege Franco Morbidelli will be his new team-mate, moving over from Pramac - and being demoted to an older-spec Ducati (which means he'll effectively retain the same bike).
Gresini
Alex Marquez (Spain, 1996)
Fermin Aldeguer (Spain, 2005)
Ducati's new signing Fermin Aldeguer - a 19-year-old brought in on the strength of a mesmerising end to last year's Moto2 campaign - was always due to ride for one of its satellite teams.
Normally this would've been Pramac, but Ducati's long-term second-in-command team is leaving for Yamaha and the news that VR46 is full means Aldeguer is being placed at Gresini.
He will be there for two years, while team-mate Alex Marquez has also penned a two-year deal.
Pramac
Miguel Oliveira (Portugal, 1995)
Jack Miller (Australia, 1995)
Pramac is switching manufacturers in 2025, and is set to go into its new era with a line-up prioritising experience.
Di Giannantonio was a target, but wants to be on potentially winning machinery in 2025 and a Pramac Yamaha is unlikely to be that. He was therefore a remote possibility even before news of a VR46 extension and 2025-spec Ducati came through.
Miguel Oliveira joins on a two-year deal from Trackhouse Aprilia and Jack Miller from KTM with just 2025 confirmed for him initially, and both listed as contracted directly to Yamaha.
Miller and Oliveira's contracts ended the 2025 MotoGP hopes of Moto2 title contender Sergio Garcia.
Tech3
Enea Bastianini (Italy, 1997)
Maverick Vinales (Spain, 1995)
Bastianini and Vinales have been unveiled as the team's all-new 2025 line-up, corresponding with a return to it being identified again as a satellite KTM operation rather than carrying the colours of fellow Pierer Mobility Group brand Gas Gas.
A KTM ride was always seemingly Bastianini's fallback for when he missed out on keeping his Ducati seat, but luring Vinales over is more of a surprise given his renewal with Aprilia seemed like the way to go for both parties.
Instead, both of the Tech3 rides have been filled by established grand prix winners from other manufacturers - leaving Miller and Augusto Fernandez on the job market.
Trackhouse
Raul Fernandez (Spain, 2000)
Ai Ogura (Japan, 2001)
MotoGP's newest team, albeit now spearheaded by one of its most revered team bosses in Davide Brivio, made its first concrete move on the premier-class rider market by re-committing to Raul Fernandez for two years.
And it shook up rider market conventions with its second signing, passing up the chance to give American Moto2 frontrunner Joe Roberts a promotion and instead going for his Moto2 peer Ai Ogura.
That represented a major coup for Trackhouse, as Ogura, synonymous with Honda to this point in his career, had long been Honda's planned successor to Takaaki Nakagami at its satellite squad LCR, where one half of the garage is backed by Japanese sponsor Idemitsu.
LCR Honda
Johann Zarco (France, 1990)
Somkiat Chantra (Thailand, 1998)
Johann Zarco has had a largely fruitless first season with LCR, but was always going to stay with the team for 2025. He has also won the Suzuka 8 Hours in Honda colours in the meantime.
But there's change incoming on the other, Idemitsu-backed side of the garage.
Nakagami has run in the colours of the Japanese oil brand since his MotoGP debut in 2018 - but will step down at the end of the year to serve as a Japan-based Honda test rider instead, in addition to its European-based test duo of Aleix Espargaro and Stefan Bradl.
Rookie Somkiat Chantra will instead take over the Idemitsu-coloured ride, becoming the first Thai MotoGP rider in the process.
COMPLETE 2025 MOTOGP GRID
Ducati: Pecco Bagnaia, Marc Marquez
Gresini Ducati: Alex Marquez, Fermin Aldeguer
VR46 Ducati: Fabio Di Giannantonio, Franco Morbidelli
KTM: Brad Binder, Pedro Acosta
Tech3 KTM: Enea Bastianini, Maverick Vinales
Aprilia: Jorge Martin, Marco Bezzecchi
Trackhouse Aprilia: Raul Fernandez, Ai Ogura
Yamaha: Fabio Quartararo, Alex Rins
Pramac Yamaha: Miguel Oliveira, Jack Miller
Honda: Joan Mir, Luca Marini
LCR Honda: Johann Zarco, Somkiat Chantra
