How much do MotoGP cost? Who pays for them? What is included in the price?

Everyone talks about budgets, money to make MotoGP and the "cost" differences between different bikes.
But how does the mechanism work, in MotoGP? How much do the bikes cost?
How are they bought, rented, and most importantly, who pays for them to whom?
It works like this.
The bikes, of course, are built by the manufacturers and deployed on the track in the factory team and then given to the customer teams.

I used the term concede and it is not a random term. The bikes are not sold.
But how do the teams pay for them?
Actually, the teams do not pay for them, rather they are "provided" by a sugar daddy who makes a dedicated contribution on their behalf.
All teams that field bikes on the track, receive a contribution from Dorna, and in the case of customer teams it happens without seeing any money. This is because the contract, although there are the guarantees of the teams with various levels of access to more or less up-to-date material, is between Dorna and the houses. It is Dorna that guarantees so that the houses get the money, and to make that happen, the teams only see the money go through according to the supply contract.

The contribution, for both customer and private teams, is five million euros, for two bikes for which the bikes are almost always all paid for and sometimes even a little something left over.

A house, let's take an example, Yamaha, that fields a customer team, then receives another three million.
So the amount that Yamaha, but also KTM receives is five million to the factory team, five million to the customer team, and another three million to the house that fields a customer team.
But so does Ducati, which fields four teams receive thirty-two million?
No. Each Ducati team receives five million plus three million for a private team. This contribution is paid only once beyond the number of private teams fielded.

But how much are the bikes actually worth, or rather what is their price?
It depends. The houses in the motorcycle package also include services such as the track engineer and the electronic and other engineers whose value is high anyway, since we are talking about so many races plus so many tests and the man days of these engineers are not cheap. These packages are there in standard, reduced or extended versions. So Dorna 's counter buto provides, in addition to the bike, a certain number of spare parts and technical personnel.

So on the one hand, those who race Ducati have slightly higher costs while on the other hand, in the case of Japanese motorcycles, they might have something left over. It could, because the houses try to go as far as charging for services until the budget is closed, this is to make the most of the subsidy given. Often of goes well beyond that.

Can it be skimmed?
That is another matter. Here is a legend that says Razali last year thought the bikes cost 8 million and therefore had to allocate more money, which then generated some scazzo son the other managerial figure on his team when he found out that instead the price was a little more than half. But that is another story....