Who are the MotoGP sponsors in 2026? The championship has six Official Sponsors (Qatar Airways, Tissot, Michelin, BMW M, Estrella Galicia 0,0 and DHL), a second layer of Grand Prix title sponsors and suppliers beneath them, and eleven teams that each carry a title or lead sponsor of their own. From 2027 Pirelli replaces Michelin and the championship enters a new technical era.

The market moved fast this summer. On 29 May 2026, at the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, Aprilia announced that Monster Energy would become the factory team’s title sponsor from 2027, the first title sponsor in the marque’s history. In July KTM and Red Bull renewed their title partnership, in September MotoGP Group chose Accenture to build its next direct-to-fan platform, and on 1 October Honda HRC announced Red Bull as a major partner of its factory team from 2027. Each of those moves redraws the map of who backs whom, ahead of the most disruptive technical and commercial reset the championship has seen in a decade.

This page is our running register: series level and team level, tier by tier and team by team, with the status of every 2027 slot. If you would rather read the story of the ten most recognisable names, start with our ranking of the 10 most famous brands in MotoGP sponsorship. For brands weighing the paddock as a platform, the value of a register is its precision: which MotoGP sponsors are locked in, which slots are still open and where the leverage sits.

Official MotoGP Sponsors & Partners

These are the championship-level MotoGP partners, the brands whose rights span the whole series rather than a single team. MotoGP.com lists six Official Sponsors; below them sit the Grand Prix title sponsors and a long list of suppliers, and the table also records the newer supplier and technology deals that matter for 2027. It is a deliberately small club, and that scarcity is part of the commercial story we return to below.

New MotoGP Sponsorship Deals in 2027

This table tracks the newest MotoGP partners and the confirmed deals that define the new era. We update it as each announcement lands; treat any 2027 slot not listed here as still open.

Why does a sponsor list carry a season label at all? Because 2027 does not merely change the calendar, it resets the machine. The MotoGP class drops from 1000cc to 850cc, the maximum cylinder bore narrows from 81mm to 75mm, front-fairing aerodynamics are cut back, ride-height and holeshot devices are banned outright, and minimum bike weight falls from 157kg to 153kg. A brand signing for 2027 is buying into a visibly different product, on Pirelli rubber rather than Michelin, under an owner that has publicly committed to growing the commercial programme. That combination of new rules, new tyres and new ownership is why we treat the 2027 sponsor map as a live document rather than a copy of 2026. There is also a quieter reason to trust the platform: since June 2026 all 11 teams and all five manufacturers have been contractually committed to the championship through 2031, which is the kind of stability a multi-year sponsor actually buys.

MotoGP Teams and Their Title Sponsors (2026, with 2027 status)

The heart of any MotoGP team’s sponsors list is the grid itself. Eleven teams contest the 2026 championship across five manufacturers: Ducati, Aprilia, KTM, Honda and Yamaha. The table below sets out each team’s title sponsor as it stands for 2026 and flags what is confirmed, or still open, for 2027. Where a 2027 arrangement is unresolved in the public record, we mark it TBC rather than guess. For a deeper read on the five factory operations, see our analysis of the 2026 MotoGP factory teams’ commercial portfolios.

A few of these entries deserve a note. Aprilia’s arrival at the top table matters because it had raced its whole MotoGP life without a title sponsor, and Monster’s decision to back it is the clearest sign this year of where energy-drink money is moving. Trackhouse, the newest team on the grid, secured its first title sponsor in SuperFile only in its third season, which tells you something about how long it takes a satellite outfit to convert on-track presence into a marquee backer.

The most interesting pattern, though, is Red Bull’s. It has renewed with the KTM factory team, its support for Tech3 is set to shrink, and on 1 October Honda announced that Red Bull returns to its factory team from 2027, with Castrol keeping the title. Red Bull will therefore back two factory garages instead of a factory and its satellite, which says a great deal about how a brand allocates a MotoGP budget when the platform changes. On the Yamaha side, the title slot left open by Monster is exactly the kind of opening a brand should be watching. If you are working out whether motorsport sponsorship is right for your brand, moments like these, a title position genuinely in play at a factory team, are where value tends to concentrate.

Read at manufacturer level, this MotoGP teams sponsors list is clearer than the satellite churn suggests. Ducati keeps Lenovo as title backer alongside Monster Energy; KTM has renewed with Red Bull; Honda races on in Castrol colours, the partnership that replaced a roughly 30-year Repsol era in 2025; and Aprilia joins the title-sponsor club with Monster. The open questions sit at the satellite teams and, notably, at factory Yamaha, the one grid slot where a manufacturer heads towards 2027 without a settled title position. For a brand, manufacturer-level stability and satellite-level flux are both useful signals: the first tells you where the platform is durable, the second where entry is negotiable.

MotoGP Sponsorship Ecosystem

Before reading any sponsor list, it helps to understand the tiers, because a logo on a fairing and a logo on a timing screen buy very different things. MotoGP’s commercial architecture, like most tier-one motorsport sponsorship, is layered, and the label attached to a brand signals both its rights and its price. That layering is about to matter more, not less: with Liberty Media now in control and CAA Sports appointed to sell the series globally, the championship is being packaged more deliberately than at any point in its recent history. We have written separately about what the CAA Sports appointment really changes for sponsors.

The backdrop to all of this is a championship in genuine commercial health. MotoGP closed 2025 with a global fanbase of 632 million, up 12% on 2024; a record 3.6 million spectators through the gates, including an all-time high of 311,797 at Le Mans; television audiences up an average of 9% per Grand Prix, with Sprint viewership up 26%; and social engagement up 61% across channels that now carry more than 60 million followers. Those numbers are the reason a thin premium tier reads as opportunity rather than weakness: the audience has grown faster than the sponsor roster, and Liberty Media’s appointment of CAA Sports in June 2026 is an explicit move to close that gap.

We define the ecosystem in nine tiers, from the broadest series-wide association down to targeted regional activation:

MotoGP.com itself uses a simpler taxonomy: Official Sponsors, Title Sponsors of individual Grands Prix, Suppliers, and the Moto2 and Moto3 technical suppliers. Our nine tiers split the same ground by function, which is what matters when you are deciding which rights to buy.

The distinction we would stress to any brand is between owning a function and owning a moment. DHL owns freight; Tissot owns the clock; BMW M owns the safety car. Those are functional designations, and they are durable precisely because they are useful, DHL has held logistics since 2015, Tissot the timekeeping since 2001. A title sponsor, by contrast, owns a moment: its name is spoken every time the team is named. Understanding how does motorsport sponsorship work at this structural level is the difference between buying visibility and buying association.

MotoGP Sponsors by Partnership Category

Here we group the confirmed series-level MotoGP sponsors by the tier they occupy. The named brands below are all official championship partners; team-level backers sit in the grid table above.

Official Sponsors

The premium tier is small, with six brands as the 2026 season runs, and that scarcity is the single most important fact in MotoGP’s commercial file. Reporting on the series ahead of the Liberty Media takeover described “a sense of stagnation” around top-tier partnerships, with most deals longstanding rather than newly won, and noted how tightly MotoGP has been associated with its European heartland. That is the gap Liberty and CAA Sports are hired to close. For a brand, a thin premium tier is not a warning sign; it is an opening. One note on labels: MotoGP.com files all six under Official Sponsor, so the finer distinctions in this section are our own reading of how the rights are used.

Official Partners

Among MotoGP partners, Estrella Galicia 0,0 and Qatar Airways illustrate how the partner tier is used to reach specific commercial goals, the former an alcohol-free beverage play tied to hospitality and lifestyle, the latter an airline and cargo deal that dovetails with a global freight calendar. Qatar Airways became the series-wide airline in 2024 and also puts its name on several Grands Prix, a textbook example of a brand holding rights at two levels of the ecosystem at once.

Official Suppliers

Supplier deals are where technical credibility is bought. Michelin has been the sole tyre supplier since 2016 and exits at the end of 2026; Pirelli takes over from 2027 on a five-year deal to 2031. For Pirelli, “Official Tyre Supplier of MotoGP” is a marketing asset as much as an engineering commitment; the rubber is on screen every lap. Supplier deals can also be a way back in: Repsol, after 30 years with Honda, returned in 2026 as exclusive oil supplier to Moto2 and Moto3 and as title sponsor of the Portuguese Grand Prix.

Technical Partners

Technical partnerships link a brand’s product to the performance of the machine or the operation. Lenovo’s relationship with Ducati is the clearest example on the grid: it began as a technology partnership in 2018 before Lenovo became title sponsor in 2021, and it now extends into product and engineering collaboration rather than pure branding.

Digital & Broadcast Partners

This is the tier Liberty Media is most likely to expand. MotoGP’s direct-to-consumer product and its broadcast footprint are where the audience actually lives now; the series passed 60 million social followers in 2025 and logged more than a billion minutes watched on its official YouTube channel. Where Formula 1’s owner built a data, streaming and content business around the sport, MotoGP’s digital and broadcast inventory is comparatively under-sold, which is precisely why the category is worth watching as new deals are struck.

We said we would name digital partners as they were confirmed, and the first has arrived. On 10 September 2026 MotoGP Group selected Accenture to power the next generation of its direct-to-fan streaming platform, which is expected to launch in the 2027 season and will bring MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3 and World Superbike under a single architecture. Tata Communications, the championship’s connectivity supplier, sits in the same infrastructure layer.

MotoGP Sponsors by Industry

Reading the paddock by industry shows both the sectors that have long understood two-wheel racing and the white space still available. The table covers the Official Sponsors, the suppliers listed by MotoGP.com and the title sponsors of the teams; a row marked None means no partner in that vertical at the time of writing, genuine open ground for 2027.

The pattern is worth pausing on. Energy drinks and lubricants are over-represented because they map naturally onto motorsport’s audience and product story. The Official Sponsor tier, meanwhile, has no bank, no telecom and no healthcare brand: those sectors appear only lower down, as suppliers (Tata Communications, Quirónsalud) or as a regional partner (the crypto exchange Bitget). Those gaps are not accidents of taste, they reflect which sectors have historically been sold to, not which could succeed. The types of motorsports sponsorship available to a bank or a health brand are exactly the same as those used by a drinks company; the difference lies in imagination and structure, not eligibility. We unpack three of these gaps, energy drinks, fintech and the aftermarket, in our MotoGP sponsorship category briefs.

The white space also explains a pattern we are often asked about: why sponsors change teams. Movement across the grid is rarely about disloyalty; it follows rider transfers, results, and the availability of a better rights package as contracts lapse. That is why the terms matter as much as the target, the case for multi-year motorsport sponsorship contracts, the right approach to sponsor logo placement, and the questions to ask a motorsport sponsorship agency before signing are all part of turning an available slot into a deal that works. It is also, frankly, part of why brands work with RTR: an independent read on the whole grid rather than a single team’s pitch.

What Rights Do MotoGP Sponsors Receive?

A sponsorship is a bundle of rights, and the value of any deal is in how many of those rights are activated rather than merely acquired. The core assets available to MotoGP sponsors are consistent across tiers, even as their scale changes:

The list is easy to acquire and hard to use well. A logo on a fairing that is never activated is what we call an empty sticker, a right paid for and left dormant. The MotoGP partners that get a return are the ones that treat sponsorship activation as the actual product and the placement as the licence to make it. That is also where an independent adviser earns its fee: matching the right bundle of rights to a brand’s objectives, and building the calendar of activations that turns exposure into motorsports sponsorship ROI. The benefits of sponsorship to the sponsor follow the work, not the signature.

Two rights in that bundle are routinely under-used by first-time sponsors: hospitality and licensing. MotoGP’s hospitality assets, from garage access to the VIP Village at circuits such as Mugello, convert a logo into relationships, and licensing turns a partnership into product a brand can sell or gift. Neither shows up in a fairing photograph, which is exactly why they are so often left on the table. A serious commercial plan treats the visible branding as the smallest, not the largest, part of the deal, and builds the hospitality and content programme that makes the rest of the bundle pay. For indicative prices by tier, see our guide to MotoGP sponsorship costs.

Championship Sponsors vs Team Sponsors

The most common question we field from brands new to the paddock is whether to back the championship or a team. They are different products, and the choice is strategic rather than budgetary. The table sets out the trade-off across the dimensions that actually decide it.

Neither is inherently better. A championship deal buys reach and neutrality; a team deal buys story and proximity. The right answer depends on what a brand is trying to do, and, just as often, on timing. Knowing the best time to sign a motorsport sponsorship deal and whether to renew, renegotiate, or switch is frequently worth more than the headline rights themselves. This is also where a brand benefits from an independent sponsorship agency rather than negotiating directly with a single team, because the adviser’s incentive is the brand’s outcome across the entire grid, not a single team’s budget.

2027 is shaping up to be the most commercially significant season in MotoGP’s recent history: new technical regulations, a new tyre supplier in Pirelli, new ownership under Liberty Media, and a rider-grid reshuffle that has redistributed championship pedigree across several teams. Each of those changes moves the value of a logo, which is why we keep this page current rather than filing it once and forgetting it. We will update it as every remaining partnership is confirmed through the fourth quarter of 2026 and into 2027, so bookmark it as the most current MotoGP teams sponsors list and MotoGP 2027 sponsor data. For brands assessing the championship as a platform, RTR has structured MotoGP sponsorship deals since 1995, and we advise across the championship, across teams, and across tiers; the map above is where that conversation usually begins, and you can talk it through with us here. Last updated: 1 October 2026. Next expected updates: Yamaha’s 2027 title sponsor, Tech3’s new partners, and the LCR and satellite naming deals.