some stats: if you're a MotoGP™ rider... you're gonna be a girl dad! 🎀
disclaimer: the accuracy might not be 100% correct, because for some the data was unavailable and there could be calculus errors, so please take these statistics with a grain of salt! :)
let's start with a quick statistic of the current 2025 grid: there are 7 dads (Miguel Oliveira, Maverick Viñales, Álex Rins, Jack Miller, Joan Mir, Luca Marini, Brad Binder) out of the 22 official riders, of which 5 are girl dads (Oliveira, Viñales, Miller, Marini, Binder), therefore there's a ~31,8% rate of riders beings dads and amongst these a ~71,4% one of being girl dads!
ok so, up until 2025 (since 2002) there have been 157 official active MotoGP™ riders:
apparently, ~46,5% of them (73 riders) had at least a child (no matter the gender) and amongst these a whopping ~74% had at least one daughter (54 riders); while about ~63% of the dad riders had at least one son (46 riders).
then, ~33,3% of these girl dads (18 riders) had 2 or more daughters, which means that ~24,6% of all the dad riders had more that one daughter.
concerning the boy dads, even less (9 riders) had 2 or more sons, only ~19,5%; this means that ~12,3% of dad riders had more than one son.
specifically, just ~35,6% (26 riders) of all the dad riders had both a daughter and a son. Oh, and merely ~4% had twins (3 riders)!
here's a last full chart with all the data:
therefore, at the moment, if you're a MotoGP rider you have a ~34,3% chance of becoming a girl dad... Congratulations! [and ~29,2% chance of becoming a boy dad :)]
this is the full list of dad riders to check yourself:
1. Norifumi Abe → 1 son
2. Karel Abraham → 1 daughter, 1 son (twins)
3. Álvaro Bautista → 2 daughters
4. Troy Bayliss → 2 sons, 1 daughter
5. Max Biaggi → 1 daughter, 1 son
6. Brad Binder → 1 daughter
7. Ben Bostrom → 1 daughter, 1 son
8. Shane Byrne → 1 daughter, 1 son
9. Leon Camier → 1 son
10. Loris Capirossi → 1 son
11. José Luis Cardoso → 1 daughter
12. David Checa → 1 daughter
13. Cal Crutchlow → 1 daughter
14. Damian Cudlin → 1 son, 1 daughter
15. Chaz Davies → 1 daughter, 1 son
16. Mike Di Meglio → 2 sons
17. Jake Dixon → 1 daughter
18. Andrea Dovizioso → 1 daughter
19. Miguel Duhamel → 1 daughter, 1 son
20. Colin Edwards → 2 daughters, 1 son
21. Toni Elías → 1 son, 1 daughter
22. Aleix Espargaró → 1 daughter, 1 son (twins)
23. Pol Espargaró → 2 daughters
24. Xavi Forés → 1 daughter
25. Sete Gibernau → 1 daughter
26. Jurgen van den Goorbergh → 1 son
27. Sylvain Guintoli → 1 daughter, 1 son (get well soon little one!)
28. Jamie Hacking → 1 daughter, 1 son
29. Noriyuki Haga → 2 sons (rest in peace Ryota 🕊️)
30. Tetsuya Harada → 2 daughters
31. James Haydon → 2 daughters, 1 son
32. Josh Hayes → 1 son, 1 daughter
33. Neil Hodgson → 1 daughter, 1 son
34. Alex Hofmann → 1 son, 1 daughter
35. John Hopkins → 2 daughters
36. Olivier Jacque → 2 sons
37. Yukio Kagayama → 2 daughters
38. Mika Kallio → 2 daughters
39. Daijiro Kato → 1 son, 1 daughter
40. Ryuichi Kiyonari → 1 son, 1 daughter
41. Michael Laverty → 1 son, 1 daughter
42. Alex Lowes → 2 daughters (twins)
43. Sam Lowes → 1 daughter
44. Luca Marini → 1 daughter
45. Michael van der Mark → 1 son
46. Jeremy McWilliams → 1 son
47. Marco Melandri → 1 daughter
48. Jack Miller → 1 daughter
49. Joan Mir → 1 son
50. Tetsuta Nagashima → 2 daughters, 1 son
51. Fonsi Nieto → 2 sons
52. Tadayuki Okada → 1 son
53. Miguel Oliveira → 1 daughter, 1 son
54. Broc Parkes → 2 sons, 2 daughters
55. Lukáš Pešek → 1 daughter
56. Michele Pirro → 2 daughters
57. Andrew Pitt → 2 sons
58. Randy de Puniet → 1 son
59. Jonathan Rea → 2 sons
60. Scott Redding → 1 son
61. Álex Rins → 1 son
62. Kenny Roberts Jr. → 1 daughter, 1 son
63. Kurtis Roberts → 1 daughter (I guess?)
64. Valentino Rossi → 2 daughters
65. Iván Silva → 1 daughter, 1 son
66. Ben Spies → 2 daughters
67. Bryan Staring → 1 son
68. Casey Stoner → 2 daughters
69. Hafizh Syahrin → 2 sons
70. Yuki Takahashi → 1 son, 2 daughters
71. Chris Vermeulen → 2 daughters
72. Maverick Viñales → 2 daughters
73. Akira Yanagawa → 1 son, 1 daughter
