MotoGP, the elite motorcycling series, has today announced Red Bull Racing’s Kelly Brittain as its new managing director of global marketing. She will take on the newly-created role for the 2025 season and head up the marketing and promotion arm for the competition.

A new global marketing role has been opened up by MotoGP, to be filled by Red Bull communications director Kelly Brittain.

MotoGP's hire of its first-ever managing director of global marketing has been more than a year in the making and is being seen as a major landmark in the motorcycling series' aggressive growth

Red Bull are set to announce whether Daniel Ricciardo or Liam Lawson will partner Yuki Tsunoda at Visa Cash App RB in 2025 following the Singapore Grand Prix, according to Sky Sports F1 reporter Ted Kravitz.

Red Bull adviser Helmut Marko has confirmed that a decision on Yuki Tsunoda’s VCARB team-mate for F1 2025 will be announced between the next two races in Singapore and the United States. It comes as Daniel Ricciardo and Liam Lawson face a nervous wait for a decision on their F1 futures.