Many people in the MotoGP paddock – including rightsholder Dorna – are worried that the last remaining, embattled Japanese factories will quit the championship. Merely thinking this a few years ago would have been ridiculous, but not any more.
Suzuki withdrew from MotoGP at the end of last season, despite having won the championship as recently as 2020 and winning two of the last three races of 2022.
So far this year Honda and Yamaha have been humiliated by their European rivals: Italian brands Ducati and Aprilia and Austrian brand KTM.
