Jack Miller remains in contract limbo as the 2026 MotoGP grid continues to take shape, with the Australian now one of just three current riders unconfirmed for next season after Honda inked deals with Johann Zarco and Luca Marini on Monday night (AEST).

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Honda announced a two-year deal for 35-year-old French veteran Zarco, a shock winner of this year’s French Grand Prix at Le Mans in May, for its satellite LCR team, while Italian Marini, 28, will stay at Honda’s factory team alongside 2020 world champion Joan Mir for a third year after replacing Ducati-bound Marc Marquez for 2024.

Miller, along with Pramac Yamaha teammate Miguel Oliveira and VR46 Ducati rider Franco Morbidelli, is off-contract at the end of 2025, with one of the Australian or Portuguese needing to make way at Pramac Yamaha after Yamaha signed World Superbikes championship leader Toprak Razgatlioglu for 2026 in June this year.

Miller, 30, is considered to be the favourite to partner the Turkish rookie next season despite being on a one-year deal after crossing from KTM in the off-season, with Oliveira’s two-year contract containing a performance clause enabling Yamaha to annul his 2026 deal should he be the worst-placed Yamaha rider in the championship standings.

Miller has grown increasingly frustrated with waiting for confirmation of his 2026 plans after Yamaha Motor Racing managing director Paolo Pavesio said at the Italian Grand Prix that the announcement of who would partner Razgatlioglu would come “before the summer break”, which began after the Czech Republic Grand Prix in late July.

“I’ve been more than patient enough,” Miller said at the most recent round in Hungary in late August.

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“If you want me, you want me. If you don’t, you don’t. It’s as clear as that. The more time that goes on, I feel that way.”

Morbidelli’s extension with Ducati, given he rides for the team run by mentor Valentino Rossi, is expected to be a formality, while Oliveira has been linked with a test rider role with one of his former manufacturers, Aprilia, if Yamaha elects to retain Miller over him.

Promising Brazilian Moto2 rider Diogo Moreira, 21, is expected to sign with Honda as Zarco’s teammate at LCR for next year in place of Somkiat Chantra, the Thai rookie having struggled to adjust in an injury-affected debut season this year.

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Honda has an option on Chantra’s two-year contract for next year that could open the door for Moreira to graduate to MotoGP as Brazil returns to the calendar for the first time since 2004 with a race in Goiania.

Zarco and Razgatlioglu are the only riders with deals that extend into 2027, the first year of MotoGP’s 850cc regulation reset and move away from the 1000cc four-stroke machinery that has been in use since 2012.