After every race weekend of the 2025 MotoGP season, Val Khorounzhiy has ranked every rider's performance - and then taken on your questions and challenges about his decisions in The Race Members' Club.

Here's his full season-end ranking of every single rider who took a MotoGP start in 2025. Whatever your thoughts or queries on it, drop them in the comments on this The Race Members' Club post and he'll respond in his Q&A video during the Christmas period.

Ducati

Championship position: 29th

Michele Pirro made very little impression, pace-wise, in his two appearances as Marc Marquez's injury stand-in late in the season.

Development work for Ducati will of course have taken precedence, but it's also clear the 39-year-old just isn't at the level to challenge random for top-10s in the same way as before.

Mostly it was just nice he got to continue his streak of starting at least a single MotoGP race every year since 2012.

LCR Honda

Championship position: 26th

Somkiat Chantra became a much more regular fixture in the points in the latter half of the season, but that owed much more to growing attrition among the rest of the grid rather than any real progress on his part.

He'd had a reasonably promising start on home soil in Thailand and was genuinely competitive in Japan seven months later. The rest of the campaign was a wash, as he found the MotoGP bike too much of a handful, never coped well with tracks that demanded more than straight braking and was deprioritised by Honda in terms of bike spec.

Aprilia

Championship position: 24th

Test rider Lorenzo Savadori raced a lot more than Aprilia would have ever wanted him to this season - but both team and rider seemed to make the most of it, using the unscheduled weekend mileage to aid the RS-GP's ultra-impressive development curve.

In terms of personal achievement, which was obviously secondary to development, he did outqualify team-mate Marco Bezzecchi once - in strange circumstances.

Honda

Championship position: 28th

Aleix Espargaro's level in his first few races for Honda was a bit disappointing, which he himself readily acknowledges - and which he attributed to a sparse start-of-season test plan, a focus on cycling and some injury trouble.

He was genuinely fast in the season finale at Valencia but didn't really get to use that speed, effectively taken out of contention in the main event by Franco Morbidelli's grid blunder.

Yamaha/Pramac Yamaha

Championship position: 25th

Augusto Fernandez gave a good account of himself in his early-season appearances on the inline-four Yamaha M1, particularly at Silverstone.

Once the V4 prototype was ready for deployment, he was, through no fault of his own, no longer as competitive - and struggling to keep his crash count down on the unrefined machine.

Honda/LCR Honda

Championship position: 23rd

Taka Nakagami looked like he'd never left the MotoGP grid in his small sample of appearances, and has been widely acknowledged as a good fit in his new role as a Honda test rider.

He is admittedly flattered a bit by his sixth-place finish at Le Mans, where he had the same strategy as the winner and ended up a minute down.

Ducati

Championship position: 27th

Rewarded for good work in World Superbikes but also genuinely counted on as an important figure in Ducati's preparation for MotoGP's switch to Pirellis, Nicolo Bulega boosted his chances of a future premier-class switch through two promising stand-in appearances.

He didn't necessarily make big competitive strides across the two weekends, but that's offset by the fact he had already started at a high level (and he was mega in the post-season test).

Aprilia

Championship position: 21st

In competitive terms defending champion Jorge Martin proved a total non-factor this season. 

A succession of season-wrecking injuries will tend to do that, and we're arguably none the wiser as to his true potential on the Aprilia RS-GP than we were before he first rode the bike a year ago.

Yamaha

Championship position: 19th

Aside from rookie Chantra, Alex Rins is a shoo-in for the 'Easiest to Forget He's Here' award in 2025.

The mid-season European stretch was particularly glum in terms of competitiveness. There was a bit of a flourish across Mandalika and Phillip Island in October, but that's very faint praise for a great rider.

Pramac Yamaha

Championship position: 20th

By the time Miguel Oliveira had shown any real hint of rebounding from the momentum-breaker that was his Fermin Aldeguer-induced Termas injury, his future at Yamaha was already doomed.

Injury aside, he clearly just didn't find the M1 a natural fit - even if he acknowledged it was perfectly compliant to ride. There were some decent weekends, some pretty good races more so than qualifying sessions, but it was ultimately forgettable.

Tech3 KTM

Championship position: 14th

Following his return from food poisoning that had masqueraded as appendicitis, Enea Bastianini briefly hit a very rich run of form - but seemed to reset come Misano two months later, as a difficult split with crew chief Alberto Giribuola was going on in the background.

His Fridays and particularly Q1s were generally not up to scratch, though race performances seemed increasingly solid.

KTM

Championship position: 11th

Brad Binder was still adept at turning the lemons of subpar grid positions into the lemonade of decent race finishes - largely due to his excellent starts and great feel for opening-lap mayhem.

But everything just seemed a bit harder than it had been in the past, with Q1 exits a source of continuous disappointment and Pedro Acosta a cruel, rarely-reachable benchmark at KTM.

VR46 Ducati

Championship position: 7th

Morbidelli was much more of an asset in terms of speed than he had been in his injury-compromised Pramac Ducati season in 2024 - but that came with the complete ruination of his already fragile on-track reputation.

His Valencia pre-race exit - on a weekend in which he'd shown a really solid turn of pace - was unfortunately more than a little fitting as a denouement.

Pramac Yamaha

Championship position: 17th

As he tends to do when switching bikes, Jack MIller got to a good level with the Yamaha right away - but there's no real indication of any upward or downward curve in his performances through the season.

There were weekends when he put up as stern a fight as Fabio Quartararo has faced within Yamaha in a long time, but those weekends didn't come around all that often.

Honda

Championship position: 15th

Joan Mir turned DNFs into an art form this year, retiring from races at truly ludicrous rates. He occasionally got a bit of help from others - and from Honda reliability - in that regard, but bore plenty of the blame.His qualifying form was OK, and especially towards the end of the season there was a real edge to his race pace over his Honda peers, as evidenced by the two podiums.

Trackhouse Aprilia

Championship position: 16th

Ai Ogura's season clearly peaked in the Thailand opener - something that he's admitted weighed heavily on his mind - but even outside of that incredible Buriram flourish it was rather positive.

He was knocked off his stride by crashes and injuries, and often started weekends a little far back. On Sundays, though, he often looked more dependable than many of the veterans.

Tech3 KTM

Championship position: 22nd

A true midfield star in his five appearances, across which he averaged more points per round than either Bastianini or the hobbled Maverick Vinales did in their respective KTM seasons.

If he were to pursue a MotoGP full-time comeback, there would be genuine merit to that pursuit - but he's very clear that he won't.

Trackhouse Aprilia

Championship position: 10th

Raul Fernandez looked borderline unemployable in some of those early rounds, as the start of his season had been compromised by a pre-season injury and some set-up missteps once back.

He righted the ship just in time for the Aprilia RS-GP to become really, really good, then capitalised superbly on two golden opportunities at Phillip Island and Valencia.

Tech3 KTM

Championship position: 18th

Vinales' best stretch of the season was fantastic once he'd figured out the KTM RC16. 

He was potentially a top-five rider in the series or close to it when the Sachsenring shoulder injury wrecked this year.

The subsequent appearances, which clearly did very little for the healing process, seemed inconsequential at best and self-defeating at worst.

VR46 Ducati

Championship position: 6th

Though there had been an embarrassing pre-season crash, Fabio Di Giannantonio's first few rounds actually looked promising - as if he was right on the verge of a frontrunning breakthrough.

That just never quite came together for any sustained stretch of sessions, never mind rounds. But his results over the run-in at least suggested positive momentum to close out the season.

LCR Honda

Championship position: 12th

Two-thirds of Johann Zarco's total 2025 points came in the first third of the season, which is not great but accurately reflects a strange year.

He was Honda's standout early on, even aside from the fairytale Le Mans win, but lost his groove and then really struggled to mesh with the upgraded RC213V - a problem he's not yet fully overcome.

Ducati

Championship position: 5th

The phrase "slow-motion trainwreck" was as if invented for this particular Pecco Bagnaia season.

By the start of it, third behind two other Ducatis seemed like an unspeakable disappointment. By the end, it was an aspirational goal.

Motegi showed there's still a mega rider in there, but the stretch from the Red Bull Ring to Phillip Island excluding Motegi was horrifying.

Honda

Championship position: 13th

Luca Marini became exactly what Honda had signed him to be: Mr Reliable.

He never ranked outside of the top 15 in this feature, kept blunders - and crashes of any kind - to a minimum and often talked up his role in the bike's (increasingly impressive) development.

Gresini Ducati

Championship position: 8th

In terms of performance, Aldeguer's MotoGP growing pains only took a couple of rounds - he was rock solid from round three at the Circuit of the Americas, and his potential in some areas (namely late-race pace) proved increasingly tantalising.

He's still a bit rough around the edges in terms of qualifying and on-track combat ('combat' is exactly the right word when it comes to Aldeguer).

Yamaha 

Championship position: 9th

Occasionally lapsing on weekends at tracks that he maybe doesn't love so much, by and large Fabio Quartararo was electric this year, dragging some wild pole positions out of the Yamaha M1 and what should've been a farewell win for the inline-four at Silverstone - destroyed by a ride height device failure.

Even in allowing some points to slip through his grasp here and there, he still outscored all his full-time Yamaha team-mates combined - and was well clear of all the Honda riders despite their superior bike.

Aprilia

Championship position: 3rd

A difficult start to the year and a faux-pas here and there keep Bezzecchi from the top three in this list, which does not feel representative of his season.

He has been a spectacular success for Aprilia, and come the end of the season - aided by the Marquez injury absence he played a direct role in - he felt like the odds-on favourite to be fastest virtually every time bikes hit the track.

KTM

Championship position: 4th

Acosta was frazzled to start the season, with a bike not as competitive as he'd hoped and an employer not as financially stable as he'd been led to believe.

But as the public flirtation with VR46 waned and so did the aura of general discontent, Acosta began to massively run up the score against other KTM riders - yet that long-awaited first win remained elusive.

Gresini Ducati

Championship position: 2nd

There was a small blip in the (summer break-separated) Central European leg of the campaign, but overall the younger Marquez was what he hadn't been before in MotoGP: dependable.

His presence at the sharp end of the timing screens became completely mundane just a handful of rounds in, and he finished strong - as the championship's top scorer in the rounds following brother Marc's injury.

Ducati

Championship position: 1st

The best or close to the best at everything.

Giving Marc Marquez a proper factory-spec Ducati was, in theory, like letting a champion boxer bring a gun, and that's exactly how it's played out in practice, qualifying and the races.