BK8 and Gresini Racing: The MotoGP Partnership Explained

BK8.io is the crypto casino from BK8, and on 24 February 2025 the wider BK8 brand became title sponsor of Gresini Racing's MotoGP team. The team was renamed BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP, and the sponsorship was announced to run across the 2025 and 2026 seasons. Here is what the deal actually covers, and what has changed since it was first announced.

Background

The sponsorship was announced by Gresini Racing on 24 February 2025, and the same announcement was later carried by Newsfile Corp in a wire release. Both describe BK8 News, the sponsoring brand behind BK8's own sports news site, bk8.news, becoming title sponsor of the team for the 2025 and 2026 seasons. From that point the team has competed as BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP, a name confirmed by the team's own MotoGP.com team page.

What the partnership covers

The title sponsorship put BK8 News branding on the team's Ducati Desmosedici GP24 machines, the riders' suits, the wider team uniforms and the garage panels used at every round, giving the sponsor visibility across a full race weekend rather than only during the race itself. Two riders carry that branding on behalf of the team each season. In January 2026 the team presented an updated livery and line-up ahead of pre-season testing, keeping the team's signature light blue colour scheme but in a richer, more solid finish, and marking the team's 30th season in MotoGP, which puts the sponsorship on one of the longer-established outfits on the current grid rather than a new entrant.

The team's technical set-up sits apart from the BK8 sponsorship itself: Gresini Racing continues to field Ducati machinery under a separate technical relationship with Ducati Corse, which the team describes as "a solid and well-structured relationship" that runs as a multi-year agreement. That side of the team covers which bikes it races rather than who sponsors it, and it continues regardless of the title sponsorship above it. BK8 News branding sits on top of that existing technical package rather than changing it.

What it means

On 2 July 2026, Gresini Racing confirmed that its current rider pairing would leave the team at the end of the 2026 season, with a new pairing already lined up for 2027 under the same team name, BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP. That announcement does not say anything about how long BK8's own title sponsorship will run beyond the 2026 season it was originally announced for, so this article makes no claim about what the branding on the bikes will look like once the new pairing arrives. What is confirmed is that the title sponsorship itself covers the 2025 and 2026 seasons, and that it is BK8 News, rather than a betting or casino product name, that actually appears on the bikes, the suits and the garage.

For a reader arriving from the casino or sportsbook side of BK8, the distinction matters: BK8 News is the same brand behind bk8.news, which carries its own football, badminton, basketball and MotoGP coverage, so the name on the fairings doubles as a pointer to where that coverage can be read rather than a shortened version of the wider BK8 brand. The rest of the sponsorship picture, including the badminton and football deals that sit alongside this one, is set out on the BK8 sponsorships page.