Official: Gresini Racing backs rookie Dani Holgado for the 2027 MotoGP revolution

Gresini Racing confirms its first rider for the 2027 MotoGP World Championship: Dani Holgado, a rookie coming up from Moto2.

The first rookie of the revolutionary 2027 MotoGP season is official. It’s Dani Holgado, currently in Moto2 with the Aspar Team, called up to make the leap with Gresini Racing and Ducati. Nadia Padovani’s team thus secures its first piece for the next championship—hardly a surprise, more an official note on the promotion to the premier class of the 2025 best rookie in the intermediate category. A rider who this year has alternated two podiums and a victory with results that are certainly consistent, but not always electrifying...

It’s a fair question, since the current Moto2 rider isn’t always among the standout protagonists of the class during GPs, still lacking a bit of consistency. Last year he earned the title of best rookie in the intermediate class; in this 2026 season, across the first 10 GPs on the books, he has logged a victory and two podiums, mixed with top-7 finishes, one result outside the points, plus a disqualification. But it could also prove to be a spot-on promotion for the young Spaniard.

Fermin Aldeguer, even though he had shown excellent signs in previous years, was coming off a not-so-memorable Moto2 season when the official deal with Gresini Racing arrived for the jump to MotoGP in the 2025 World Championship. We know how that turned out: in his rookie year, Aldeguer has already dazzled, with results still not fully confirmed only due to the constant physical issues the Murcian rider has run into... It’s always a gamble, but so are all the changes we’ll see next season: from 1000cc to 850cc, tires switching from Michelin to Pirelli, no invasive aerodynamics like in recent years, nor ride-height devices that cause more problems than anything else. We’ll see. In the meantime, the 2027 MotoGP grid is taking clearer shape—at least officially—since the names have been known for months...

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