By Riccardo Tafà| Posted June 16, 2025 | In MotoGP, MotoGP
The evolution of the MotoGP technical engine regulations is at the heart of the development strategies, sponsorship and communication choices of teams and sponsors. For a CMO or sponsorship manager, understanding the regulatory details related to MotoGP 2025 and MotoGP 2026 means not only enhancing the economic investment, but also aligning with the sport’s values of sustainability, innovation, and spectacularity. In this article, we will look in detail at the technical specifications of the engines, the homologation and concessions system, the freeze on specifications for 2026, and the fallout for business and corporate communications.
MotoGP technical regulations are defined by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) in the FIM Grand Prix World Championship Regulations – 2025 edition printed on January 31, 2025. The 2025 regulations govern championship prototypes, with a focus on safety, cost leveling and sustainability. The document covers all classes (MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3), but here we focus on the premier class and MotoGP 2025 engines.
The maximum displacement in 2025 remains 1000 cm³, with four-stroke four-cylinder engines and a maximum cylinder diameter of 81 mm. The choice of a 4-cylinder engine at 1000 cc is the result of years of development to maximize power (about 250 hp) and maintain the balanced package between acceleration, torque and durability of critical components.
Regulations impose 6 maximum gears per sequential gearbox and a minimum weight of 157 kg. Limiting the number of gears is designed to preserve the spectacle by avoiding continually close shifts, while the minimum weight protects both safety and tire management and fuel consumption during Grand Prix.
At the beginning of each season, manufacturers must homologate their engine package, specifying the final configuration they will use for the championship. Each driver is entitled to seven standard engines for the entire season; however, the concessions system may grant 9-10 engines to manufacturers with fewer championship points in order to incentivize innovation and reduce the performance gap.
The MotoGP concessions system rewards teams with fewer constructor points, offering:
This mechanism aims to ensure more competitive races and to provide space for up-and-comers to get closer to the giants of the paddock.
The max tank is 22 liters, and thestandard ECU controlsanti-start and anti-clearance, as well as injection and traction control parameters. Engine maps must comply with the approved limits, with no hidden switches or modifiable RPM channels, ensuring uniformity of power and cost reduction.
The Grand Prix Commission has ruled that 2025 engines will also be frozen for the 2026 season, preventing new aerodynamic or mechanical evolutions for performance purposes. The only exceptions allowed are:
This measure aims to control costs and maintain a balanced level of competition ahead of the major regulatory change in 2027).
Freezing 2026 enables:
Understanding the MotoGP 2025-2026 technical regulations enables:
An effective sponsorship plan integrates technical storytelling and on-track benefits, strengthening corporate stakeholder engagement and ROI.
Starting in 2027, the era of MotoGP engines will change:
These changes aim to make the sport safer, more sustainable, and more spectacular. Those who invest today will be able to take advantage of the 2025-2026 “freeze” period to better prepare for the regulatory jump.
To implement a winning sponsorship strategy over the next two years and take advantage of every technical and communication opportunity, contact RTR Sports Marketing: we will turn this knowledge into a concrete competitive advantage.
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Managing Director for RTR Sports, Riccardo graduated in law at the University of Bologna. He began his career in London in PR, then started working in two and four-wheelers. A brief move to Monaco followed before returning to Italy. There he founded RTR, first a consulting firm and then a sports marketing company which, eventually, he moved back to London.
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By doing so, we are convinced that we are shortening the value chain, saving time and money. However, these DYI methods are anything but risk-free and what initially appears to be a competitive advantage soon turns into a problem that is difficult to resolve. That’s why there are agencies. And this is why you should rely on us for your sponsorships.
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Activations are the real heart of motorsport sponsorship. Without them, there remains only a blank sticker on a motorcycle, car or uniform and no contact with the public, no emotional connection, no impact on the bottom line. Then how do you do it? It certainly won’t be the teams or the athletes who will help you leverage sponsorship and enjoy the many marketing rights you have paid for. To bring out the best in a motorsport marketing project, you need an agency that knows how to use sponsorship to engage the fanbase online, to reach out to Shopping Centers, to organize hospitality, to develop B2B and B2C opportunities, and to get “your” athletes in front of millions of potential consumers.
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We have been involved in motorsport sponsorship and sports marketing for more than 15 years. We are consultants in the sense that our goal is to maximize your investment, but we are also an agency that manages the project from start to finish. We have been doing this since 1995 with passion and professionalism, following three principles that have become cornerstones of our business: independence, verticality and transparency.
I would like to highlight the fact that one of the qualities of RTR is its great ability to approach the sponsorship scenario strategically, together with its passionate attitude, its amazing enthusiasm for solving problems, and its high level of professionalism.
Gianluca Degliesposti
Executive Director Server&Storage EMEA
Eurosport is truly delighted with its business relationship with Riccardo Tafà, who has become extremely popular, thanks to his detailed knowledge of the sports marketing sector and his highly diligent attitude to work.
Francois Ribeiro
Commercial Director
Passion and Expertise are the features that I have found in RTR since the very beginning. Serious and reliable professionals but also very helpful, nice and open-mind people, willing to listen and compare different ideas. All the values in which RTR believes make this agency a partner, not just a supplier, a partner with whom we have had the opportunity to achieve significant commercial results in term of success and image.
Luca Pacitto
Head of Communication
We have been working with RTR Sports Marketing for over 10 years. The objectives and the programmes of collaboration continue to be renewed and to grow with mutual satisfaction. I believe RTR is a team of great professionals led by Riccardo Tafà, who I consider a manager of exceptional skills and with a great passion for his work.
Lucio Cecchinello
Team Principal
I have known and worked with Riccardo Tafà since 1995 when we collaborated for the first time on a project for the Williams Formula 1 team. Several clients followed. After leaving Williams to work for Gerhard Berger then owner of the Toro Rosso F1 Team, I turned again to Riccardo to seek his help in finding a tool supplier for the team and Riccardo duly obliged with an introduction to USAG, a partnership with Toro Rosso which endured for five years. I recently started a new role as Group Commercial Director for the renowned Andretti Autosport organisation and I find myself working with Riccardo once again on a number of interesting projects. Why has this relationship with Riccardo endured ? He’s smart, knows the commercial side of sport inside out and back to front and he’s honest and trustworthy. Riccardo Tafà is a “doer” not a “talker”: in over 20 years I have never had a dispute either with him or with a company that he has introduced and each partnership introduced by Riccardo has delivered quantifiable ROI to rights holder and sponsor alike. I can think of no better testimonial of Riccardo’s diligence, knowledge, contact base and hard work than that.
Jim Wright
Group Commercial Director
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