Viñales will ride KTM for the 2025 MotoGP season.
Thus, the Spaniard will leave the Italian brand after three full seasons in which he managed to win once; this year in Austin and they currently have seven podium finishes.
Maverick Viñales will join the structure, which is currently jointly managed by Tech 3 and the Pierer Mobility group and which is competing this year under the sponsorship of Gas Gas.. By 2025, both the Catalan and Bastianini will be wearing the KTM suit, given that the orange motorcycle manufacturer intends to bring four identical prototypes to the track. Brad Binder and Pedro Acosta will race as part of the factory team, while Bastianini and Viñales will race in Tech 3.. As a result, Aprilia will lose its current partner Viñales and Aleix Espargaro, who have decided to retire and who Motorsport.com understands will continue on testing duties with Honda.
At the first moment, Viñales’ intention was to explore the possibility of extending his contract with Aprilia, the brand that gave him refuge in the last period of 2021., after that traumatic breakup with Yamaha. However, the Noale-based builder preferred to wait for Espargaro to decide his future before starting negotiations with Viñales.
On the Monday after the Italian Grand Prix, Aprilia announced the signing of Jorge Martin, for whom it had made enormous financial efforts to convince himafter Ducati ruled out Mallorca to partner Pecco Bagnai in their official team and opted for Marc Marquez, who will wear red until at least 2026.
At the moment it remains to be seen who will receive RS-GP, which is still free, although the most logical thing would be this will go into the hands of one of the two current VR46 riders: Marco Bezzecchi or Fabio Di Giannantonio.
Ten wins in as many seasons in MotoGP
Viñales was born in Empordà Figueres on January 12, 1995, and made his debut at the 125cc World Championship in 2011. In 2013 he became Moto3 world champion, taking up to 12 wins in three years in the small class.. After a single season in Moto2 in 2014, scoring four wins and finishing third in the championship, Maverick moved up to the top class as an Official Suzuki Factory Rider (2015), where he took his legendary first MotoGP win at the 2016 British Grand Prix..
Making his debut for the Yamaha team, which he joined in 2017, replacing three-time champion Jorge Lorenzo and being teammate of Valentino Rossi, Maverick won his first two races in Qatar and Argentina and a fifth in France before a change in tire specification led to a prolonged drop in results.. He would still win five more races between 2018 and 2021, which would not be enough to challenge for the title and maintain his position in the Iwata house despite having a contract, due to his lack of adaptation to a bike that never suited his tastes.
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In mid-2022, he was fired from Yamaha and signed with Aprilia.in which he won the 2024 American Grand Prix, becoming the first rider to win the MotoGP World Championship with three different brands (Suzuki, Yamaha and Aprilia).
In 2025, his eleventh season in the top class, in which he has achieved ten victories to date, Viñales will ride for the fourth manufacturer, the Austrian KTM and, in particular, for its satellite team, the French Tech3, where they compete this season Augusto Fernandez and debutant Acosta.