Interesting rumours coming from offseason:
1. Raul Fernandez is almost certainly moving up to Tech3.
2. Lecuona is moving back to Moto2, team TBD.
3. Ajo in Moto2 is interested in Joe Roberts, but he is trying to get the Aprilia seat
4. Vinales/Aprilia is not 100% - Vinales is considering taking a year off
5. Toprak Razgatlıoglu was offered the A-spec seat bike at SRT, which he rejected to stay in WSBK
6. Petrucci is potentially going off-roading (e.g. Dakar) with KTM. He apparently is not interested in Superbike racing.
But the biggest one:
VR46 program might be in trouble. The Aramco sponsorship has not actually been signed. Tanal is pressuring VR to be a full time rider on his team to attempt to get the deal with Aramco secured, but even then it is not entirely guaranteed (I sense it's not happening in any case). If VR46 doesn't race, then the Aramco is highly unlikely to happen, which then poses a problem for Vr46 in that they won't have a primary sponsor, and thus, no funding. VR46 has money, but not enough to fund his program out of pocket. There is a possibility that VR46 will not be on the grid.
As a potential ripple effect to this, both Luca Marini AND Marco Bezzechi could land in SRT BUT the problem there is that there is increasing pressure to have a British rider in MotoGP, and Jake Dixon is already a SRT rider (albeit in Moto2)
It has become all very messy all of a sudden. There is a possiblity that Luca Marini and/or Marco Bezzechi could find themselves without a MotoGP ride. It is all depends on what happens with VR46, Aprilia, and SRT.
Another complication is that VR46 only wants to be a silent partner. He does not want to be a team principle. He wants to go road racing next year. So the question now becomes who would sponsor the VR46 team when VR won't really have a constant presence. Evidently the simple VR46 brand is not enough - at least it looks like that's what Sky thinks.
