The new season is coming ever closer, and teams have started to reveal their 2026 MotoGP launch dates.
As they prepare to unveil their updated liveries and rider line-ups and start the upcoming campaign on the right foot, fans can get an early look at the 2026 bikes and the new stars joining the grid, including rookies Toprak Razgatlıoğlu and Diogo Moreira.
Discover all confirmed team presentation dates and locations in our handy team-by-team overview, showing exactly when and where each team will reveal their bike before the pre-season tests begin with the shakedown in Sepang from 29th to 31st of January.
Ducati Lenovo Team
The Ducati factory team was the first to announce its team presentation date for 2026. Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia’s bikes will be unveiled on January 19, less than two weeks before the shakedown test in Sepang.
The location honors what is becoming a Ducati tradition: for the fourth consecutive year, the Italian ski resort of Madonna di Campiglio – now long-term partner of MotoGP’s benchmark team – has been chosen once again to kick off Ducati’s 2026 season.
After a season in 2025 that slightly dented their dominance, Ducati enters 2026 as the clear favorite, determined to defend their number one spot against an uprising Aprilia.
Having shown that he’s miles clear of the rest of the field, Marc Marquez will once again be the standout contender for what could become the Spaniard’s tenth title.
On the other side of the garage, following a challenging year that saw him finish a disappointing fifth in the standings, Francesco Bagnaia will aim to return to his championship-winning form in 2026.
BK8 News Gresini Racing
At the other end of the globe from Ducati’s snowy Italian launch, Gresini Racing will reveal its 2026 MotoGP team in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on the evening of January 31, just after Sepang shakedown test.
The customer team enters the new season with high expectations after a breakthrough 2025, when Alex Marquez secured three grand prix victories to finish as championship runner-up, while rookie Fermin Aldeguer claimed a race win and earned the Rookie of the Year title.
For 2026, Gresini will enter a new phase of the team’s cooperation with bike supplier Ducati. Building on his incredible 2025 season, Alex Marquez will race a factory-spec Ducati GP26 – a first for the Gresini Racing team – while Aldeguer will remain on a satellite-spec Desmosedici alongside only VR46’s Franco Morbidelli.
