Top Motogp Manufacturers – While we’re usually obsessed with custom bikes here at Bike EXIF, you can also find us glued to our screens during the MotoGP season. We love racing, and by extension, racing motorcycles. The engineering on a proper MotoGP race bike is staggering, often trickling down to more high-end custom builds.
But the motorcycle itself is only part of the package. Once the engineers have built it, the team’s designers have the difficult task of merging the team’s corporate identity with a host of sponsor brands, to create a livery that is distinguishable at 200 mph.
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It is those liveries that are remembered years later, sometimes going on to become iconic. Who can forget Valentino Rossi’s yellow Camel-sponsored Yamaha, or Suzuki’s Lucky Strike era?
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We’re about halfway through this year’s season, so we thought we’d take a break and take stock of this year’s MotoGP race bikes. We ranked them by who we thought hit (or missed) the mark, and noted designs we think will continue to be remembered.
10. GASGAS Factory Racing Tech3 Remember Tech3’s blue, silver and orange KTM from 2020? Or the blue GO!!!!!!! Yamaha from the early 2000s? What about last year’s Tech3 bike; mostly orange with a bold KTM logo splashed on the side?
Rebranded as GASGAS Factory Racing Tech3, the pairing of Pol Espargaro and Augusto Fernandez basically run KTM RC16s under the GASGAS banner (in case you didn’t know by now, KTM owns GASGAS). So they followed the same approach as last year and kept the vibrant simple – the brand’s signature color, accompanied by their logo.
It is not that different from the bikes that GASGAS offers in other disciplines, such as motocross, enduro and rally racing. Except that the brand’s primary color is red… just like another brand that has a lot more experience in MotoGP. If there’s one color that needs a serious injection of imagination before 2024, it’s this one.
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9. CryptoDATA RNF The new CryptoDATA RNF livery would have landed at the bottom of the list, if not for the fact that, unlike GASGAS, they actually added some graphics to their bike. Using what the team calls a “bold combination” of green, black, blue, red and rose gold, the team’s Aprilia RS-GP looks like every part of it was conceived by a different designer, without each know what the other was doing.
Parts of it look great. But throw it all on one canvas, and it’s a hodgepodge that seriously lacks cohesion.
We’ll bet this one isn’t the fault of the team’s designers, though. RNF reinvented itself for 2023, switching from Yamaha to Aprilia for their bikes, and from WithU to CryptoDATA as their title sponsor. Chances are the graphic designers behind this had an impossibly long list of colors and motifs to include.
The mass of blue used in the front looks good, as does the olive green tail section. But the line that divides them (they call it rose gold but it’s closer to a faded coral pink) doesn’t do the bike any favors And spare a thought for the Italian dairy company, Sterilgarda; they must have been the last sponsor to sign on because their logo looks like it had to be tacked on at the last minute.
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8. Yamaha Factory Racing If you don’t know Aldo Drudi’s name, you’ve definitely seen his work. He was responsible for countless helmet designs and racing bikes, and he designed all of Valentino Rossi’s helmets. Drudi also wrote this year’s Yamaha MotoGP design – but despite his pedigree, we’re not feeling it.
Last year’s Yamaha bike was slick and menacing; a striking blue and black design punctuated by Monster Energy logos that somehow managed not to look flimsy (as Monster Energy logos tend to do). This year’s bike keeps that color scheme, but mixes in some gray to splash the YZR-M1 in an urban camo-inspired design.
The YZR-M1’s ‘funky’ design is likely an attempt to attract a younger audience. But, like a balding, middle-aged man in skinny jeans and Converse sneakers, it’s trying too hard.
7. Ducati Lenovo The biggest news from the factory Ducati camp at the start of the season was that Pecco Bagnaia chose to run the #1 plate on the front of his bike this year. It’s a brave move from the defending champion; the last time someone won rugby championships with the #1 plate was when Mick Doohan did it in 1998. But it has paid off so far.
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The second biggest news was that Monster Energy came on board as a sponsor. As for the rest, most of the Desmosedici GP’s design has remained unchanged for 2023, save for a few subtle tweaks.
Which is good… I guess. Ducati has been racing in MotoGP for 20 years now, and has almost the monopoly on red bikes. Sure, it’s not as stylish as the tri-color design that Rossi and Hayden launched in 2012, or as cool as that time Fila sponsored the team – but it’s not the worst-looking bike on the grid.
6. Mooney VR46 Racing Valentino Rossi’s team is another one that hasn’t changed its livery much (or at all) for 2023. But that’s a good thing.
Luca Marini and Marco Bezzecchi’s satellite Ducati race bikes wear a black base coat, with bold stripes running down the sides. One is in Rossi’s signature yellow, and the other an orange hue to represent the team’s title sponsor, Mooney.
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It’s a striking color combination, but what really makes it great is how well the graphics complement the silhouette of the bike. Despite the fact that there will be no less than eight Ducatis on the road this year, the VR46 team will have no trouble getting noticed.
5. Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Has the KTM factory team even updated their livery for 2023? We cannot say. Is there anything going on here besides a massive Red Bull logo? Uncertain. Does the RC16 look very cool and lightning fast? Yes.
Remember when tobacco brands were allowed to sponsor race teams? That era produced some of the most iconic colors ever seen. Ducati and Marlboro, Honda and Rothmans; you picture them as we list them, don’t you?
Here’s the deal: energy drink companies are the new tobacco sponsors. In fact, Red Bull isn’t even an energy drink company anymore – they’re an enormous sports media company that also happens to produce an energy drink.
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Just like Red Bull Racing’s F1 cars, the Red Bull KTM factory bikes are already iconic. 20 years from now, we’ll be reminiscing about Brad Binder and Jack Miller’s glory days together—and commenting on how radical the KTMs of the 2020s looked.
4. Aprilia Racing The 2023 season will be notable for Aprilia for two reasons. For starters, they will have an extra two bikes on the grid, running in the RNF Aprilia team. Second, they lost their concessions, courtesy of Aleix Espargaró’s outstanding 2022 season.
One thing that hasn’t changed is Aprilia’s racing livery. The factory team’s RS-GP race bikes wear the same black, red and purple colors as they did last year, with little to no changes. And we’re totally fine with that.
Without paint, the RS-GP is the best-looking bike on the grid. And the combination of a black base layer with kinetic red and purple stripes only enhances it. Standing still or in motion, the Aprilia A-Team’s RS-GP is simply one of the best-looking bikes on the grid – even if its riders struggle to put it on the podium right now.
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3. Gresini Racing Gresini’s 2022 bike has teamed the team’s Pantone 2122 blue with Ducati’s signature red. But it felt a little slap dash.
The team’s designers have cleaned up the Gresini bike’s graphics for 2023, and they look sharp. There is a clearer division between the powder blue and red, with red stripes cutting their way across the center of the bike. A lick of white on the handles and inside the fringe wings adds a neat touch.
The sponsor logos do not fight for attention – and best of all, the design on Alex Marquez and Fabio Di Giannantonio’s leather integrates perfectly when they are in the attacking position.
So far they haven’t been able to squeeze as much performance out of the Desmosedici GP as Enea Bastianini did last year. But there is no doubt that it is one of the most beautiful machines on the track.
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2. Repsol Honda It seems to be a difficult year for Repsol Honda. They are the only team with two MotoGP champions in their squad, but Marc Marquez and Joan Mir have spent more time in the gravel than at the top of the timesheets so far this season.
One thing that hasn’t changed is Honda’s relationship with Repsol. They’ve been with this for almost three decades now – so it’s no shock that their color has stayed the same for 2023.
The Honda RC213V once again wears its signature white, orange and yellow Repsol graphics. Although this year they seem to have tweaked them to be ever so slightly brighter, making the bike jump even more than before. (Bonus points for orange wheels too.)
There’s no denying it – Honda and Repsol are a