It will be the Thailand the first stage of the MotoGP World Cup 2025 which opens over the weekend on the Chang International Circuit of Buriram, without the Aprilia of the world champion Jorge Martin. The Spaniard on Monday in Andorra fractured to the forearm and the heel of his left foot in training on a supermotard bike.
The recovery times after the operation will be evaluated in the next few days but the 27 year old Madrileno He also risks skipping the next GP in Argentina. A cancellation after the intervention to the other hand to which he underwent 7 February for the Sepang accident. In total they will run 22 Grand Prix from 28 February to 16 November. Each weekend of the race will be enriched by the Sprint Race, which thus brings the total number of competitions to 44.
Il Team to beat the Ducati remains, Although he will have two less bikes after the passage of Pramac Team in Yamaha. Borgo Panigale’s house began its recovery in 2019, with Andrea Dovizioso who had tried to crumble the domain of the Honda of Marquez, and since 2022 he was the undisputed dominator, first with Bagnaia and finally with Martin. This year he can deploy the two great favorites, Pecco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez, 11 titles world championships: the Turinese is on the hunt for revenge after the title touched last year with 11 great prizes won.
The Spaniard is the other serious candidate for the title with possible sparks in the Ducati box between the two Desmosedici GP25 and with the team that ensures that it will not favor Italian in any way. “The predictions are good, but I’m sure there will be difficult moments that we will have to manage,” explained DG Gigi Dall’Igna, “I think we have done a good job during the winter and we will have a lot of material to test there. We are all Humans and we can all fail.
The other Ducatist pilots are Fabio Di Giannantonio and Franco Morbidelli (Team VR46) and Alex Marquez and Fermanin Aldeguer (Gresini Racing). The latter, Spanish, is a debutant in MotoGP like the Japanese at the Ogura (Aprilia Trackhouse) and Thai Somkiat Chantra (LCR Honda).
Among the outsiders, Marco Bezzecchi stand out on Aprilia and Fabio Quartararo on Yamaha while Honda and Ktm start more defined and with many problems.