The next big MotoGP hotshot is up for grabs in 2026
Will a battle of the bꦜrands brew for young starlet?

MotoGP’s next starl♛et could be at the centre of a🍌 tug-of-war between manufacturers.
David Alonso will step from winning Moto3 into 💮Moto2 in 2025 but the premier class could also be very close.
He insists that a contractual clause would allow him to move into MotoGP in 2026, if he wins the Moto2 t🌠itle at the first time.
“Yes. If so, I don't see it as very realistic, but yes, there is the 🍃option, yes,” Alonso told Marca.
“My contract is with Aspꦡar. I don't know. It wo♌uld have to happen.
“It's true that Moto2 is a category where, like a guy like Johann Zarco, even if you win and repeat and stay, it’s not a bad category to♛ do it.
“Because it depends a little more on you, in💞 terms🌄 of pace.
“And it's a bit of the style, it's a goꦐod school for MotoG🐓P in terms of riding.
“I mean, it doesn't hurt you [to stay longer].
“So, it is a category where staying one more year of your plans is no🐼t a problem either.”
If Alon🉐so takes Moto2 by storm, he could find offers from MotoGP’s top manufacturers who will all be desperate to agree terms with a potential superstar.
This season, he beat Valentin✃o Rossi’s tally of race wins in the Moto3 class.
Alonso kno𒊎ws that the b🍨ig guns in MotoGP will be watching his progress in 2025.
“Well, very grateful th𓆏at they are interested and🅰 it means that things are going well,” he said.
“That also allows you to underܫstand that we are on a path, but that we have to keep working because if not🌸...
“We didn't even get there and we still have to [keep chipping away]. We have to keep there always🤡 trying to improve,🌳 now see what this new category is like. Grateful but we continue to work.”
Alonso described his riding style.
“My reference is Marc Marquez, but [in terms of] riding, maybe a bit like Pedr꧋o Acosta,” he said.
“I 🐷don't know, because I'm like a rider like that, [good on the brakes], who likes to do V-curves and I'm not so much into corner♊ing. I try to be as complete as possible, but yes, maybe in Acosta style.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade co▨vering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.