join the Avintia BQR team currently staffed by Ivan Silva and Yonny Hernandez, with Silva likely to make way for Barbera. The remaining CRT rides are likely to be filled over the coming weeks. For the latest updated list of MotoGP riders for next season, see our provisional MotoGP rider list . Below is the official press release announcing the signing of Bautista: GRESINI RACING AND ALVARO BAUTISTA RENEW FOR 2013 Gresini Racing and Alvaro Bautista have reached an agreement to continue together in 2013, extending the collaboration started this season. The Team, led by Fausto Gresini, and Spanish rider Bautista hope to achieve significant results together in the 2013 season. Fausto Gresini "I am happy and proud to announce that today we have finally reached an agreement with Alvaro for the 2013 season -- a source of great satisfaction for me. I believe in long term projects and I think that Alvaro still has plenty of potential. I am convinced that he will provide us with much further excitement with some great results. I think that for him we are like family and this feeling can take us very far." Alvaro Bautista "I am very happy to continue with Gresini Racing, because from day one I knew that being part of this Team would feel like being home. It is a great team and I am happy to continue with them; even when we have had difficulties this year, we have worked so hard together and I get on