BMW is rumored to enter MotoGP for the 2027 season after buying information from Suzuki.
It has been considered for years BMW It will enter MotoGP, but the German manufacturer has never crossed over from Superbikes to MotoGP.
A new manufacturer has not entered MotoGP since the 2017 season, when the Austrian manufacturer was present. KTM He joined the sport with the support of RC16 and Red Bull.
However, since Suzuki has left MotoGP at the end of the 2022 seasonThere were only five producers in the series compared to the high number in the past.
BMW will not enter MotoGP in the near future
In a question and answer session with Oxley Bom MotoGP PodcastMat Oxley and Peter Bom were asked if BMW will join MotoGP in the coming years.
However, even after receiving information from Suzuki when the pair left the series, they both believed the German manufacturer would not enter MotoGP.
Oxley said, “I wrote something about that a few years ago, you get information from people, you trust some people, and you don’t trust other people. I’m 99.9% sure BMW is not coming to MotoGP.”
“No, they’re BMW, so you can’t trust them,” Bohm added.
“You don’t know, you don’t know if they can last 10 years, look at the history of how they did in World Superbikes or Formula 1.
I live in Northern Europe so I hear things to do with it, and my understanding is that there is Suzuki information for BMW, and they were really close to doing it.
But in the end, it’s BMW, so no, and I don’t see them coming back from these moves.
BMW has acquired MotoGP data from Suzuki
In the year 2024 BMW has reportedly bought MotoGP data from SuzukiThe German manufacturer began to assume that they will enter the series in 2027.
BMW returned to the World Superbike paddocks from the 2009 season and won back-to-back titles with Toprak Razgatlioglu in 2024 and 2025.
Their success in the series has seen Torak Razgatlioglu’s desire to compete in MotoGP further speculation that the German manufacturer will be tempted to enter MotoGP.
However, the information was not used by BMW to enter MotoGP, instead the manufacturer remains in the ranks of former MotoGP riders Miguel Oliveira and Danilo Petrucci in World Superbikes.
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