The 2023 FIM

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World Championship will be the premier class of the 75th F.I.M.

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World Championship season.

Teams and riders

All teams use series-specified

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tyres.

Team changes

RNF Racing RNF Racing is a Malaysian independent Grand Prix motorcycle racing team that began competing in the 2022 season. The team competed with Yamaha motorcycles in the MotoGP class as a satellite team under the name WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team, and ...

will switch to

Aprilia Aprilia is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer founded immediately after World War II in Noale, Italy, by Alberto Beggio. The company started as a manufacturer of bicycles and moved on to manufacture scooters and small-capacity motorcycles. ...

after a season with

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. *

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have withdrawn from the MotoGP class at the end of the 2022 season. * Tech3 KTM Factory Racing will be rebranded as GasGas Factory Racing. The team will be using

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-rebranded KTM bikes.

Tech3 Tech3 is a motorcycle racing team competing in the MotoGP class World Championship under the name Tech3 GasGas Factory Racing. They also compete in the Moto3 World Championship under the name Red Bull KTM Tech3 and the MotoE World Cup under the ...

will continue to own and operate the team.

Rider changes

Jack Miller Jack Miller may refer to: Military * Jack Miller (USMC officer) (1920–1942), American marine soldier * Jack Duppa-Miller (1903–1994), British recipient of the George Cross in World War II, originally called Jack Miller * USS ''Jack Miller'', ...

will move to the KTM factory team from the Ducati factory team, replacing

Miguel Oliveira Miguel Ângelo Falcão de Oliveira (; born 4 January 1995) is a Portuguese professional motorcycle racer who competes in the MotoGP World Championship for RNF MotoGP Team, getting the step up from KTM Tech3,

. Oliveira will then move to RNF Aprilia MotoGP Team. *

Álex Márquez Álex Márquez Alentà (born 23 April 1996) is a Grand Prix motorcycle rider from Spain racing for Ducati satellite team Gresini Racing MotoGP. He has competed in MotoGP since the 2020 season, having previously become World Champion in the 2 ...

will move to Gresini Racing MotoGP from

LCR Honda LCR Team is a motorcycle racing team currently competing in the MotoGP World Championship under the name LCR Honda Castrol with rider Álex Márquez and LCR Honda Idemitsu with rider Takaaki Nakagami, as well as the MotoE World Cup under the name ...

, replacing

Enea Bastianini Enea Bastianini (born 30 December 1997), nicknamed "La Bestia" (The Beast), is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer, riding for Ducati Lenovo Team in the MotoGP class. He won the 2020 Moto2 World Championship. Career Early career Born in Rim ...

. Bastianini will then be promoted to the Ducati factory team, replacing Jack Miller. * Álex Rins will move to LCR Honda from the now defunct

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team, replacing Álex Márquez. *

Pol Espargaró Pol Espargaró Villà (born 10 June 1991) is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer who for 2023 will ride in the MotoGP class for the newly named GasGas Factory Racing team, a development of Tech3. He previously spent two years with Repsol Hond ...

will move to the newly rebranded GasGas Factory Racing team from the Honda factory team. He will be replaced by

Joan Mir Joan Mir Mayrata () (born 1 September 1997) is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer riding for the Repsol Honda Team, who is best known for winning the 2020 MotoGP World Championship with Suzuki. He is the fourth Spanish rider to win the premie ...

, who will move from the now defunct Suzuki MotoGP team. * Raúl Fernández will move to RNF Aprilia MotoGP Team from Tech3 KTM Factory Racing. *

Remy Gardner Remy Christopher Gardner (born 24 February 1998) is an Australian motorcycle racer, best known for winning the 2021 Moto2 World Championship with Red Bull KTM Ajo. He is the son of 1987 premier class world champion, Wayne Gardner. Career Mo ...

will leave MotoGP for the Superbike World Championship. He will be replaced by Moto2 World Riders' Champion

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, who will enter the MotoGP class with the rebranded GasGas Factory Racing team. * After being left without a place in the MotoGP grid,

Darryn Binder Darryn Binder (born 21 January 1998) is a South African professional motorcycle racer set to compete in the 2023 Moto2 World Championship for Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP. Career Binder was born in Potchefstroom, South Africa. His older brothe ...

went down to Moto2 to make his debut in that class.

Rule changes

Sprint races will be introduced at all Grands Prix. Sprint races will be held at 15:00 on the Saturday of each Grand Prix weekend and will be approximately 50% of the total race distance. Points will be awarded to the top 9 finishers on a 12–9–7–6–5–4–3–2–1 basis, similar to the system being used in Superbike World Championship Superpole races. The grids for both the Sprint race and the Grand Prix race will be set from qualifying, which will retain its Q1–Q2 format. There will also be one less practice session and the warm-up session as a result.. Sprint race wins are not considered as regular Grands Prix wins and instead would have their own "Sprint race wins" statistic. The weekend format is now fixed for every event. Moto3 will be followed by Moto2, followed by MotoGP. Minimum tyre pressure rules will be enforced. The use of any device that modifies or adjusts the motorcycle’s front ride height while it is moving is now forbidden.

Calendar

The following Grands Prix are provisionally scheduled to take place in 2023:

Grand Prix locations

Calendar changes

* For the first time since 2006, Lusail in

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will not host the opening round due to "extensive renovation and remodelling to the paddock area and circuit facilities". * The

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will return to the International Paddock of the

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for the first time since

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. * India and Kazakhstan are both scheduled to host their first World Championship motorcycle Grands Prix in 2023 at the Buddh International Circuit and the

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, respectively. * The

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was scheduled to make its debut in 2023 but was postponed until at least 2024 due to the unfinished construction of the circuit. * The Aragon Grand Prix was omitted from the schedule for the first time since its introduction in 2010. * The Finnish Grand Prix at Kymi Ring was under contract to feature in 2023, but was not included in the provisional calendar due to safety concerns of the

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