Source: Red Bull.

The ninth season of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup will kick off in Jerez with the first race on Saturday, 2 May, with confirmation coming that Australian teenager Olly Simpson will again be a starter in the category.

The 24 teenagers from 14 nations will have already been on the bikes at the pre-season test held at the same track during three days between 31 March and 3 April.

The 2014 season saw a large number of Rookies graduate so Italian 16-year-old Fabio Di Giannantonio and 15-year-old Netherlander Bo Bendsneyder start their second Cup seasons as favourites having finished eighth and ninth in the points table.

Simpson meanwhile, the 16 year-old Australian, is the only Rookie heading into a third year after first entering the series in 2013.

There are 14 new names. Twelve of those were invited from the October Selection event and two, 15-year-old Kaito Toba and 14-year-old Ayumu Sasaki, both from Japan, are graduates of the Asia Talent Cup.

2015 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup provisional entry list:
4 Patrik Pulkkinen (Finland)
9 Robert Schotman (Netherlands)
13 Martin Gbelec (Czech Republic)
14 Bruno Ieraci (Italy)
16 Emanuel Aguilar (Argentina)
19 Rufino Florido (Spain)
20 Omar Bonoli (Italy)
21 Fabio Di Giannantonio (Italy)
22 Mykyta Kalinin (Ukraine)
23 Raúl Fernández (Spain)
27 Mattia Casadei (Italy)
29 Gabriel Hernandez (United States)
37 Walid Soppe (Netherlands)
41 Marc Garcia (Spain)
44 Martin Vugrinec (Croatia)
​45 Olly Simpson (Australia)
64 Bo Bendsneyder (Netherlands)
67 Kaito Toba (Japan)
69 Rory Skinner (Great Britain)
71 Ayumu Sasaki (Japan)
76 Makar Yurchenko (Russia)
81 Aleix Viu (Spain)
96 Oscar Gutierrez (Spain)
99 Enzo Boulom (France)