MotoGP: eight riders will have a new chief mechanic in 2024

The chief mechanic is a key figure in the career of a driver within a team, and complicity and reactivity in addition to general competence, the pair thus composed can shine in the firmament as well as get lost in the anonymity of the peloton. Technical voice of the echo brought back from the track, he is an essential who is less and less a man in the shadows as his responsibility has increased. It is not for nothing that experienced champions like to keep them close to them to the point of wanting to bring them with them by changing horizons. However, in 2024, eight drivers who will begin an adventure with a new environment will also have to deal with a new accomplice in the pits. And not least…

On the 22 drivers registered for the world championship MotoGP 2024, eight will have changed team leaders, in addition to moving to a new team. There was in fact the passage of Marc Marquez at Ducati Gresini, Luca Marini at Honda, Fabio Di Giannantonio from Ducati Gresini to Ducati VR46, from Franco Morbidelli at Ducati Pramac, Johann zarco in Honda LCR and Pedro Acosta promoted within KTM Team GASGAS.

Some crew chiefs will also change, although most drivers will have the same engineers as this season. Marc Marquez will have Frankie Carchedi and Joan mir who will still be at Repsol Honda will discover Santi Hernandez. alex rins will have Patrick Primmer, while Paul Trevathan who worked with the experienced Pol Espargaró at GasGas Tech3, will now be alongside his successor, the rookie Pedro Acosta.

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Marc Marquez will be with the former chief mechanic of Joan Mir and Joan Mir will work with the previous technician of Marc Marquez

David Munoz will be with Fabio di Giannantonio in the VR46 team, while Franco Morbidelli will have the former team leader of Johann zarco, Massimo Branchini, at Ducati Pramac. There are also confirmed duos like Bagnaia-Gabarrini, Bastianini-Rigamonti or Quartararo-Gubellini but more than a third of the drivers present on the grid will have changed chief technician...

Here are the teams thus formed:

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Aleix Espargaró as Antonio Jiménez

Maverick Vinales as José Manuel Cazeaux

Team Ducati Lenovo

Enea Bastianini as Marco Rigamonti

Francesco Bagnaia as Cristian Gabarrini

GasGas Factory Racing Tech3 – KTM

Augusto Fernandez as Alex Merhand

Pedro Acosta as Paul Trevathan (new)

Gresini Racing MotoGP – Ducati

Alex Marquez as Donatello Giovanotti