Although it has yet to be announced, Sam Lowes will move over to the Gresini Moto2 team next season and also be part of the Aprilia test team in 2016 before taking a seat in the MotoGP squad for 2017 and 2018, meaning he gets a Kalex chassis to contest the world championship next year and then a fully-formed and developed MotoGP bike the year after.
It looks very much like Tito Rabat will move up to MotoGP with his Estrella Galicia Marc VDS squad and his Moto2 seat will be taken by Franco Morbidelli. Jack Miller may also move from LCR to Marc VDS and occupy a second MotoGP bike in that squad but at what level that machinery will be remains to be seen. It could be that Rabat gets a 2016 bike while Miller will run an upgraded version of the bike Scott Redding is using this year.
LCR parted ways with their main sponsor CWM before Silverstone and may run only one bike, ridden by Cal Crutchlow - a situation the team is more used to being in.
The future of Aspar is still unclear, as is the future of rider Eugene Laverty. The team has run without a major sponsor all year and owner Jorge Martinez will be scratching his head for funds next season but, as with a lot of the smaller teams, he will just want to survive 2016 and take advantage of the extra Dorna funding that kicks in a year later.
Aspar may have to run one or two hybrid bikes with Laverty on one. As the spec-ECU eliminates the Open class for next year, the Irishman may have to contend with a parts-bin special should the team continue as they get some upgrades to add to their RC213V-RS. But, another school of thought says that Aspar will switch to Ducati next year and take Yonny Hernandez' sponsorship money to fund that while Loris Baz will move to Avintia Ducati with Hector Barbera.
It would appear that Forward, ABRacing and the Ioda squads will all bite the dust at the end of this year and more than likely not be replaced on the MotoGP grid.
