Despite being 28 years old, Joe Roberts would not look at giving up his MotoGP dream by moving to World Superbikes.

Even after being overlooked for the Trackhouse Racing MotoGP ride for the 2025 season, Joe Roberts has not given up on his MotoGP dream.

The 28-year-old has now been racing in the Grand Prix paddock full-time since the 2018 season, and in this time has claimed three race wins and six further podiums.

The MotoGP paddock has become less likely to promote older Moto2 riders into the premier class, which has seen multiple riders leave for World Superbikes in recent years.

However, the American is happy where he is and is refusing to give up on reaching MotoGP in the future.

"It's true that at 28 you start thinking about your future," Roberts told Speedweek.com.

"But at the same time, I really enjoy what I'm doing now. I enjoy racing in this class. I don't know what the future holds.

"But I believe I still have a chance to make it to MotoGP, I think I'm strong and fast enough to race there. People pay a lot of attention to age, but Tom Brady won a lot of Super Bowls when he was over 35. Age is bullshit, what matters is what you do on the racetrack."

The 2025 Moto2 World Championship did not start how Roberts would have expected it to, as he did not feature inside the top ten until the seventh round of the season.

The Californian explained that at the start of the year, he was still struggling with his scaphoid, which he fractured at the end of the 2024 season.

"I suffered a serious injury last year when I broke the scaphoid bone in my right hand in Australia. It was a compound fracture, something that takes time," he explained.

"It's one of those bones that doesn't have good blood flow. It took me a long time to heal. My recovery and my preparation over the winter were far from perfect. When I got back on the bike for the first test, I had no strength."