The Beast is changing direction once again. From 2027, Enea Bastianini will become a Trackhouse MotoGP rider, racing an Aprilia alongside Raul Fernandez. The two-year deal will take Enea into the new era of MotoGP and into a team that, throughout 2026, has stopped asking for space at the front and started taking it.
After weeks in which Bastianini’s future looked increasingly likely to move away from KTM, there is no uncertainty left. At the end of 2026, the Tech3 chapter will close and a completely different one will begin.
It will not simply be another change of colours.
For Enea, it will also be another opportunity to rediscover the rider we have seen far too inconsistently over the last few seasons.
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Bastianini: From KTM to Trackhouse, another new beginning
In 2027, Bastianini will move onto his third different bike in four seasons.
After Ducati and KTM, Aprilia comes next.
Trackhouse has chosen him to line up alongside Raul Fernandez, combining the Spaniard’s growth within the project with the experience of a rider who already knows what it means to win and fight at the front in MotoGP.
Enea brings victories, podiums and a 2022 season in which he finished third in the World Championship. But he also brings everything that came afterwards. We have seen the Beast when he looked capable of attacking anyone in front of him. We have also seen him having to start again. After injuries, difficult seasons and weekends in which the talent still seemed to be there, hidden behind a bike or a situation that never quite allowed him to show it completely.
Trackhouse will be another restart. And perhaps that is exactly what makes this move so interesting.
Trackhouse is no longer just the surprise
Then there is the moment in which this deal arrives. Trackhouse is no longer simply the young American team that entered MotoGP with something to prove. During 2026, it has become a real presence at the front. Raul Fernandez and Ai Ogura have repeatedly put the RS-GP into the positions that matter, and Fernandez’s victory at Silverstone gave another dimension to a project that continues to grow.
That changes the meaning of Bastianini’s destination completely. This is not a refuge. It is not simply a seat that allows him to remain in MotoGP. It is a team that wants to keep moving forward and has chosen an experienced rider as the Championship prepares for one of the biggest technical changes of recent years.
New 850cc machinery will arrive in 2027, alongside a new technical era for the entire grid. And Enea will become part of that project from the beginning.
A new Aprilia and a new challenge: Trackhouse, Bastianini and Fernandez
That may be the most intriguing part of the story. Bastianini will not simply be stepping onto an Aprilia at a normal point in its development.
The whole MotoGP field will effectively be starting again in 2027. New engines. New regulations. A different technical landscape. For the riders, adapting quickly will matter. For the teams, having someone capable of understanding what a bike needs will matter just as much. Enea arrives with experience gathered across very different MotoGP projects.
It is a different kind of responsibility. Not simply learning a bike. Helping a new one grow.
For a rider who has spent recent seasons adapting to situations already built around him, that could become one of the most important parts of this new challenge.
Enea and Raul: two different paths in the same garage
On the other side of the garage will be Raul Fernandez. And after what Trackhouse has shown in 2026, that is no small detail. Raul has grown together with the team. He has found speed, consistency and the confidence to turn potential into results, culminating in his Silverstone victory.
Bastianini arrives carrying something different. More years in MotoGP. Experience with different manufacturers. Victories already achieved. And all the scars left by the more difficult seasons.
One rider found in Trackhouse the place where he could grow. The other arrives looking for the place from which he can start again.
From 2027, those two paths will meet inside the same garage.
The Beast changes colours once again
Before 2027, however, there is still a season to finish. The KTM chapter is not over yet. There are races still to run, results still to chase and opportunities for Enea to leave something behind before saying goodbye. But now we know what the next page will look like.
American in the garage.
Italian on the fairing.
Trackhouse, but also Aprilia.
And on a 2027 grid that will begin an entirely new technical era, Bastianini will have another opportunity to put speed, confidence and results back together.
The Beast changes colours once again.
We do not know yet where this road will take him.
But we do know that another project is waiting — and with it, another chance to remind everyone how much noise Enea can still make when he truly feels at home on a motorcycle.
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Leggi: Raul Fernandez dominates Silverstone, Bez fights to the podium as Pecco crashes again
Guarda: Trackhouse’s post on Instagram for Enea Bastianini
