A 2025 thread where you can discuss motorcycling series such as World Superbikes, British Superbikes and MotoGP.

 

I'll post the rider list and schedule later.

MotoGP lineup:

Teams	Riders
Aprilia Racing	1 Jorge Martin 72 Marco Bezzecchi
Ducati Lenovo Team	63 Francesco Bagnaia 93 Marc Márquez
Red Bull KTM Tech 3	23 Enea Bastianini 12 Maverick Viñales
Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	33 Brad Binder 37 Pedro Acosta
BK8 Gresini Racing Ducati	73 Álex Márquez 54 Fermín Aldeguer
Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Ducati	21 Franco Morbidelli 49 Fabio Di Giannantonio
Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	20 Fabio Quartararo 42 Álex Rins
Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP	43 Jack Miller 88 Miguel Oliveira
Trackhouse Aprilia	25 Raúl Fernández 79 Ai Ogura
LCR Honda	5 Johann Zarco 35 Somkiat Chantra
Honda HRC Castrol	36 Joan Mir 10 Luca Marini

Edited March 1Mar 1 by CowTzy

WorldSBK lineup:

Teams	Constructors	Riders
ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team	BMW	1 Toprak Razgatlıoğlu 60 Michael van der Mark
Aruba.it Racing - Ducati	Ducati	11 Nicolò Bulega 19 Álvaro Bautista
Barni Spark Racing Team		9 Danilo Petrucci 5 Yari Montella
Team PATA GoEleven		29 Andrea Iannone
MGM Bonovo Racing		45 Scott Redding
Elf Marc VDS Racing Team		14 Sam Lowes
Motocorsa Racing		17 Ryan Vickers
Bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team	Bimota	22 Alex Lowes 47 Axel Bassani
PATA Maxus Yamaha	Yamaha	55 Andrea Locatelli 65 Jonathan Rea
GYTR GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team		87 Remy Gardner 77 Dominique Aegerter
Yamaha Motoxracing WorldSBK Team		53 Tito Rabat 99 Bahattin Sofuoğlu
Kawasaki WorldSBK Team	Kawasaki	31 Garrett Gerloff
Honda HRC	Honda	97 Xavi Vierge 7 Iker Lecuona
Petronas MIE Racing Honda Team		95 Tarran Mackenzie 21 Zaqhwan Zaidi

Edited March 1Mar 1 by CowTzy

Reserved for BSB

Many thanks for starting this thread, CowTzy, much appreciated, :)

As expected, Marc Marquez is likely dominating this season. Nobody's able to catch him on Sprint today. Technically, The Alien this season is either a World Champion or a 'flop'.

Ogura looks promising as a rookie. I hope he remains consistent, then gets a competitive bike.

Don't think Marc took the race seriously this time. He's definitely sandbagging from L7-L23 lol.

I think he has mistakes in him so wouldn't write off this season just yet.

What a ride from Ogura. And Acosta has really turned crap now...

Can't blame Acosta completely, at least for this year. KTM almost went bankrupt last year, so I won't be surprised if they end up being last in the constructor's championship. Bestia's also pushing off his limit with his brand new scooter.

According to experts, Marc intentionally let his brother take the lead due to the tyre pressure limit he had to fulfill.

Another concerning thing is that Diggia needs to race better. He has recovered from his injury, so there's no excuses for not performing well with that third GP24.5 bike.

Edited March 3Mar 3 by CowTzy

Again, Marquez brothers are in the Top 3 during FP1, while both Bagnaia and Diggia...

I can see him being able to either create a 7-second gap or play with other riders again during the main race.

Both Marquezes remains undefeated so far and Bagnaia should be glad he's still the 3rd fastest. I assume Marc is still just dancing at the moment, but I won't eliminate any possibility that Alex improves a lot from last race. So the inconsistency nature is still a thing for non-Ducati riders. Both Ogura and Miller show nothing on Sprint, but we got Zarco ahead of Mir and Diggia instead today (and probably tomorrow, too). NT to Acosta for touching Top 4 for a lap with that scooter.

Dixon looks pretty good today on Boscoscuro. Considering how competitive that chassis was last year, I can't see why he won't become a Moto2 World Champion, and probably bring back UK to the main class.

2024 Moto3 World Champion David Alonso, who won 14 races last year, hasn't shown anything impressive yet unfortunately, unlike his fellow rookie Dani Holgado who quickly adapts with the Moto2 bike and finish at Top 10 on his first 2 races.

Today's literally a carbon copy of what happened 2 weeks ago. 😭

Well done to Morbidelli as well for returning to podium since 2021 and keeping embarrassing his still-underperformed teammate.

Zarco would've easily been at that leading group as well if he'd still been riding for Ducati.

Good Sunday for Ogura and I'm glad he's proving me wrong yesterday.

And....Ogura's effort yesterday worthed nothing. Ogura gets disqualified because he was "found to be using a non-homologated software version (V21 b102), that had not been approved by Championship."

Acosta is rumored to join Ducati following the manufacturer's bad performance on the first 2 races.

Lol at the rogue Marquez fans trying to make Acosta the villain after he 'mocked' Marc in a TV show while also accepting Rossi's MotoRanch invitation, just because he wants to race for the best manufacturer. Now I understand quite a bit how Max Biaggi and Sete Gibernau felt back in the 00s when Rossifumi made them villains (luckily there's no Twitter and Instagram yet back then!).

'Not a great' Friday for Marc Marquez at COTA as he ONLY finished 3rd in Free Practice 1 and ONLY +0,73 seconds faster than the 2nd fastest rider.

King of COTA is down!

The game is on for both his brother and Pecco.

(Good luck for the upcoming 'grant winner' / 'grant podium' backlash, Valentino Rossi fans)

Aldeguer's supposed-to best MotoGP performance so far ends up on gravel...

Edited March 30Mar 30 by CowTzy

It was inevitable, this version of MM still has loads of silly mistakes in him - no chance is this title gonna be a romp.

Also the KTM factory bike is absolute puke this season...

So, after explicitly saying that WorldSBK will soon become DucatiSBK, Razgatlıoğlu finally dominated Portimao 2 weeks ago after having a disastrous season opener.

Bulega has improved too, I gotta say.

Edited April 8Apr 8 by CowTzy