Northern Talent Cup

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Northern Talent Cup

Current season, competition or edition: 2022 Northern Talent Cup
Sport	Motorcycle sport
Founded	2020
First season	2020 European Talent Cup
Continent	Central and Northern Europe
Most recent champion(s)	Jakub Gurecký (2021)

The Northern Talent Cup is a one-make European motorcycle racing series. It was created to give young riders from Central and Northern European countries a first stepping stone on the road to MotoGP.^[1]

The series races on the KTM 250 Standard, and uses the European Talent Cup as a blueprint. One of the top riders will have a chance to race in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup the next year, and at least two will be take part in the Rookies cup selection.^[1]

In the inaugural season in 2020, Hungarian rider Soma Görbe won the title,^[2] and sixth place German Freddie Heinrich raced in the 2021 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, and in 2021, Czech rider Jakub Gurecký won the cup,^[3] and he and Belgian runner-up Lorenz Luciano were selected for the 2022 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup.