For World Superbike it is already 2025. In fact, today, Dorna and the FIM officially presented the list of entries for the start of the next season of the championship. A contingent made up of 23 riders from 10 different countries, in which there is no shortage of confirmations and a few new entries, such as rookies Yari Montella, Bahattin Sofuoglu and Ryan Vickers.
Having won the title in 2024, Toprak Razgatlioglu will return to the starting blocks of the World Championship with BMW and the #1 on the fairing, aiming to reconfirm himself as champion. Along with him, we will find again among others the two riders of the official Ducati team, Alvaro Bautista and Nicolo Bulega, as well as Jonathan Rea, in his second season with Yamaha.
Again next year, as many as six riders will be defending the Italian flag. In addition to Bulega and Montella, who will flank Danilo Petrucci in the ranks of the Barni Spark Racing team, the tricolor squadron will also see Andrea Iannone with Go Eleven, Andrea Locatelli with Yamaha and Axel Bassani, ready to take on a new challenge with Bimota.
In fact, 2025 will be the year of the Rimini-based brand's return to the championship, which will field two BK998s, entrusting them to the Veneto rider and his teammate, Alex Lowes. On the bike front, however, it will be Ducati that will have the most in action, with a total of eight Panigale bikes on the grid. That's two more bikes than Yamaha and twice as many as Honda, which will have six and four, respectively.
Down to two will be the BMW M 1000 RRs in action, with Kawasaki instead having Garrett Gerloff as its sole representative, riding the ZX-10RR of the Puccetti Racing team, the Akashi manufacturer's new factory team.
The 2025 World Superbike 2025 entry list.