BK8 and Gresini Racing MotoGP

BK8.io is the crypto casino from BK8, and on the MotoGP grid the BK8 name rides with Gresini Racing. Since 2025 the team has raced under a new name, and the sponsorship puts the brand in front of one of motorsport's largest global audiences every race weekend.

How the partnership started

BK8 News, the sports news brand that also runs bk8.news, became title sponsor of Gresini Racing's MotoGP team in an announcement made in February 2025, ahead of the season-opening Thai Grand Prix. From that point the team has raced as BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP, and the sponsorship was announced to run across the 2025 and 2026 seasons. The deal put BK8 branding across the Ducati Desmosedici GP24 machines the team races, plus the riders' suits, the team uniforms and the garage panels at every round, giving the sponsor visibility from Friday practice through to the podium, throughout a full race weekend rather than only during the race itself. A separate technical agreement between Gresini Racing and Ducati Corse continues beyond 2026: the team describes it as "a solid and well-structured relationship", confirmed as a continuing multi-year agreement, though that side of the arrangement covers the bikes rather than the BK8 sponsorship specifically.

The riders

Gresini Racing fields two riders each MotoGP season, and both carry BK8 branding on their suits and represent the team at every round of the calendar. The pairing that carried the BK8 name through the 2025 season continued into 2026, when the team presented its updated livery and line-up in Kuala Lumpur in January, ahead of pre-season testing at Sepang. The 2026 livery kept the team's signature light blue but rendered it in what the team called a richer, more solid finish, with chrome detailing removed for a stronger racing character — an evolution of the existing design rather than a break from it. That presentation marked the team's 30th season in MotoGP, making it one of the longer-established outfits on the current grid rather than a new entrant. On 2 July 2026 the team confirmed that its current pairing will leave at the end of the 2026 season, with a new pairing already announced for 2027; that announcement was made under the same team name, BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP. No source cited on this page states a sponsorship term for BK8 itself beyond the 2025 and 2026 seasons originally announced, so this page makes no claim about what the branding will look like once the new pairing arrives.

BK8 News on the bike

The name on the fairings does not simply read "BK8": it reads BK8 News, and that is a deliberate piece of branding rather than a shortened version of the wider brand. bk8.news is BK8's own sports news site, covering football, badminton, basketball and MotoGP in English and Khmer, and the title sponsorship carries that name onto the bikes, the suits and the garage rather than the casino or sportsbook name directly. For a fan following the team at a race weekend, the BK8 News branding also works as a pointer to where the same fan can read race coverage and other sports news from the same publisher, alongside the BK8 site this page sits on.

The British Grand Prix

MotoGP's calendar runs across several continents each year, and one round on it is the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. The 2026 edition was held over the weekend of 7 to 9 August as round 12 of the season, after running in May for the 2025 edition; the circuit described this as a return to its traditional August slot. BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP takes part in every round of the calendar as a full-time entry, Silverstone included, alongside every other team on the 2026 grid; this page does not make any claim about betting markets tied to the race weekend itself.

The wider BK8 sponsorship picture, including the badminton and football deals, sits on the sponsorships page, and coverage of BK8 News and the team's results runs in the site's own news section.

The wire release, the team name change and the first race weekend under the new branding are traced step by step in the account of how the BK8 Gresini Racing partnership came about.

Sources

• Gresini Racing: BK8 News is the new title sponsor
• Newsfile Corp: BK8 News and Gresini Racing announce MotoGP partnership
• MotoGP.com: BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP team page
• MotoGP.com: BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP unveil 2026 colours
• Gresini Racing: between present and future
• MotoGP.com: 2026 calendar, Silverstone round
• Silverstone: 2026 MotoGP calendar announced