Save the date! MotoGP™ Team Presentations are coming

The 2023 MotoGP™ season is nearly underway, with an eagerly anticipated date in Portimao setting the scene for the opening spherical of the marketing campaign later in March. Earlier than then although we now have the small matter of the Crew Displays to handle, the place new-look line ups and their bike liveries shall be unveiled.

We don’t have to attend lengthy to see what 2021 World Champion Fabio Quartararo and 2020 runner up Franco Morbidelli’s M1 will appear to be, with the Iwata manufacturing unit the primary facet to disclose their plans and machine for the upcoming marketing campaign.

Just some brief days later, we’ll get a primary glimpse of Alex Marquez in Gresini’s 2023 colors as he prepares for his first premier class journey away from Honda bikes. The previous LCR rider will associate Fabio Di Giannantonio within the Ducati satellite tv for pc workforce.

Having delivered a primary World Championship in 15 years to the Bologna bullets as they accomplished the 2022 triple crown, Francesco Bagnaia will as soon as once more lead the workforce’s cost for glory. Nonetheless, there’s one main shake up within the facet, with Enea Bastianini, who got here third final season and proved a worthy adversary to Pecco, now partnering the Italian within the manufacturing unit workforce and together with his personal title ambitions. Ducati will launch GP23 within the lovely surrounds of the Dolomite mountains in Italy.

Two days later, the opposite two GP23s on the grid shall be revealed as Jorge Martin and Johann Zarco put together for a 3rd season collectively as teammates.

Rounding out the opening month of the yr’s Displays are KTM, the place Jack Miller and Brad Binder showcase their RC-16s.

For the primary time since 2019, two premier class Champions shall be teammates as Joan Mir joins Marc Marquez on the manufacturing unit Honda. By the way, Honda additionally noticed the final pairing of Championship successful teammates, when Jorge Lorenzo and Marquez joined forces, and the Japanese marque shall be hoping that it might show the successful method as theyplot a route again to the highest of the MotoGP™ world.

One in every of two new groups getting into the fray in 2023, GASGAS welcome Pol Espargaro again to the RC16 and hand rookie Augusto Fernandez an opportunity within the premier class.

Having made big strides in current seasons, the Noale manufacturing unit come into 2023 as elite contenders after a breakthrough yr that noticed them declare a number of podiums and a first-ever MotoGP™ victory. Having fallen simply brief final season, Aleix Espargaro shall be hoping to go one additional and declare a high three Championship end if not the title itself, whereas Maverick Viñales has already confirmed that he’s a power to be reckoned with aboard the RS-GP.

The opposite new workforce becoming a member of MotoGP™ for 2023, and Aprilia’s first-ever satellite tv for pc facet, sees Miguel Oliveira and Raul Fernandez make up a formidable outfit with the power to drag off a shock or two.

As of but, we don’t know when Honda’s satellite tv for pc workforce will unveil their machines for the upcoming marketing campaign as Takaaki Nakagami shall be joined by ex-Suzuki rider Alex Rins underneath Lucio Cecchinello’s cost.

We’re additionally nonetheless awaiting affirmation for the ultimate pair of Ducatis on the grid, with Rookie of the Yr Marco Bezzecchi and Luca Marini hoping to construct on final season’s extraordinarily promising marketing campaign.