Alpine Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly has been named as one of the investors into the new-look MotoGP team Tech3. Gasly first visited the MotoGP paddock in 2019, during the Thai Grand Prix, and gets on with one of the series’ biggest stars, his compatriot Fabio Quartararo. Tech3 has described Gasly as “the first active F1 driver to invest in a MotoGP team”, a notable milestone given the persistent rumblings that the likes of Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstappen could be tempted into premier-class team ownership. “I have a strong conviction in the strength of the Tech3 brand and the long-term growth of the MotoGP sport,” said Gasly. “Tech3 has significant untapped potential, and I look forward to contributing to further elevating the team’s profile.” Gasly’s sports investment portfolio already includes a part-ownership in a more local venture, the third-division French football outfit FC Versailles. The news of his investment into Tech3 comes as the long-time MotoGP outfit unveils its full ownership structure following last year’s takeover headlined by motorsport professionals Guenther Steiner and Richard Coleman and IKON Capital. The group of investors now also includes Bolt Ventures (headed up by David Blitzer, currently best known in the sports landscape for being a managing partner at the Philadelphia 76ers basketball franchise and the New Jersey Devils in hockey) and Main Street Advisors (founded by Paul Wachter, who is a partner at Fenway Sports Group that owns multiple sports franchises including football club Liverpool and baseball’s Boston Red Sox). Tech3 founder Herve Poncharal had handed over the reins to new ownership at the turn of the year. What’s next for Tech3? A long-standing MotoGP satellite team of much repute since joining the grand prix paddock at the turn of the century, Tech3 – which also has a Moto3 team – partnered Yamaha for over a decade before swapping over to KTM bikes as it sought a closer collaboration with its manufacturer partner. In recent years that partnership has taken the form of Tech3 effectively being treated as a second factory team by KTM, with the same title partner in Red Bull, an effectively-indistinguishable livery, and two proven riders on factory contracts in Maverick Vinales and Enea Bastianini. However, while it remains in a transition period from the Poncharal era to the new Steiner/Coleman-led operation, Tech3 will already have a massive decision to make in the early months of 2026. “It’s true that it’s been a strange winter. I’ve been working with Herve since 2003, so it’s a long work together,” team principal Nicolas Goyon said. “This winter has been kind of strange – because the official change of management has been made on December 31, so the whole December, Herve was still leading the company – but obviously he couldn’t take any decisions. So on his side it was clearly, ‘OK, I’m not the boss anymore’. “And on the [other] side, they didn’t really start, the only started on January 1. So, this winter – we managed on our own but we know how to manage it. The job was, in one way, quite easy: we kept the same sponsor, the same brand, the same riders, so everything was kind of settled. “So in the end the transition was quite smooth, even if in December we were, let’s say, on our own.” The aforementioned massive decision is whether the team will seek a new manufacturer partner or continue to work with KTM, whose programme is recovering after the financial crisis the company had survived last year. Any idea then of KTM continuing in MotoGP into the new 850cc regulations in 2027,