By Dan Moakes
March 27 2012
MotoGP entry list for 2012:
| no. | rider | entrant | bike |
| 1 | Casey Stoner AUS | Repsol Honda Team | Honda RC213V |
| 26 | Dani Pedrosa ESP | Repsol Honda Team | Honda RC213V |
| 4 | Andrea Dovizioso ITA | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha YZR-M1 |
| 35 | Cal Crutchlow ENG | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha YZR-M1 |
| 5 | Colin Edwards USA | NGM Mobile Forward Racing # | Suter-BMW |
| 6 | Stefan Bradl BRD | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda RC213V |
| 8 | Héctor Barberá ESP | Pramac Racing Team | Ducati Desmosedici |
| 9 | Danilo Petrucci ITA | Came IodaRacing Project # | Ioda-Aprilia |
| 11 | Ben Spies USA | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha YZR-M1 |
| 99 | Jorge Lorenzo ESP | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha YZR-M1 |
| 14 | Randy de Puniet FRA | Power Electronics Aspar # | ART |
| 41 | Aleix Espargaró ESP | Power Electronics Aspar # | ART |
| 17 | Karel Abraham CSK | Cardion AB Motoracing | Ducati Desmosedici |
| 19 | Álvaro Bautistá ESP | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda RC213V |
| 51 | Michele Pirro ITA | San Carlo Honda Gresini # | FTR-Honda |
| 22 | Iván Silva ESP | Avintia Racing MotoGP # | FTR-Kawasaki |
| 68 | Yonny Hernández COL | Avintia Racing MotoGP # | FTR-Kawasaki |
| 46 | Valentino Rossi ITA | Ducati Team | Ducati Desmosedici |
| 69 | Nicky Hayden USA | Ducati Team | Ducati Desmosedici |
| 54 | Mattia Pasini ITA | Speed Master # | ART |
| 77 | James Ellison ENG | Paul Bird Motorsport # | ART |
# Claiming Rule Team
* substitute rider
** wildcard rider at selected races
*** replacement rider
Tyre supplier for all: Bridgestone
Former champions:
| rider | 990 | 800 | 600 | 500 | 250 | 125 | SBK |
| Valentino Rossi | 4 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Nicky Hayden | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Casey Stoner | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jorge Lorenzo | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| Dani Pedrosa | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - |
| Stefan Bradl | - | - | 1* | - | - | - | - |
| Álvaro Bautistá | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Andrea Dovizioso | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Colin Edwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Ben Spies | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Cal Crutchlow | - | - | 1* | - | - | - | - |
* Bradl won the Moto2 GP title and Crutchlow the Supersport title
Former race winners, at the end of 2011:
| rider | 990 | 800 | 600 | 500 | 250 | 125 | SBK |
| Valentino Rossi | 45 | 21 | - | 13 | 14 | 12 | - |
| Casey Stoner | - | 33 | - | - | 5 | 2 | - |
| Dani Pedrosa | 2 | 13 | - | - | 15 | 8 | - |
| Jorge Lorenzo | - | 17 | - | - | 17 | 4 | - |
| Colin Edwards | - | - | - | - | - | - | 31 |
| Álvaro Bautistá | - | - | - | - | 8 | 8 | - |
| Ben Spies | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 14 |
| Andrea Dovizioso | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | 5 | - |
| Héctor Barberá | - | - | - | - | 4 | 6 | - |
| Mattia Pasini | - | - | - | - | 2 | 8 | - |
| Cal Crutchlow | - | - | 5* | - | - | - | 3 |
| Stefan Bradl | - | - | 5* | - | - | 2 | - |
| Randy de Puniet | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - |
| Nicky Hayden | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Michele Pirro | - | - | 2* | - | - | - | - |
| Karel Abraham | - | - | 1* | - | - | - | - |
* 600cc wins including both Moto2 Grands Prix and World Supersport races:
Bradl and Abraham were winners in Moto2, Crutchlow was a winner in WSS, and Pirro took one win in each series
