Moto2: Diogo Moreira (Italtrans Racing Team) is the 2025 Moto2™ World Champion!
A 10th place in a dramatic final race of the season was more than enough to secure the crown as sole remaining rival, Manuel Gonzalez (Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP), faced a must win and pulled in from the latter half of the top ten.
Up at the front, Izan Guevara (BLUCRU Pramac Yamaha Moto2) took his first Moto2 win in some style too, becoming a record 11th different winner this season as he held off Daniel Holgado (CFMoto Inde Aspar Team). Ivan Ortola (QJMotor – FRINSA – MSI) charged up the order to make it another first in third place, taking his maiden Moto2™ rostrum.
After a tense orchestra of revs on the grid, it was Guevara who emerged with the early lead, with Gonzalez holding station in fifth and Moreira getting his elbows out to do the same in ninth.
Guevara, polesitter Holgado, Albert Arenas (ITALJET Gresini Moto2) and Senna Agius (Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP) was the quartet leading Gonzalez, with relative calm across the group early doors, before Ortola attacked Gonzalez for fifth on Lap 5. Moreira remained ninth, with Celestino Vietti (Sync SpeedRS Team) and Jake Dixon (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team) for company.
Ortola then attacked Arenas for fourth on Lap 7 as Guevara and Holgado started to eke out a gap in the lead. Agius and Ortola cut it back down, but then had their own fight and gave the ground back up. Gonzalez then went wide and gathered it back up. On Lap 14 he went wide again and gathered it back up. But the pressure was building and his pace was dropping. Collin Veijer (Red Bull KTM Ajo) pipped past the #18 not long after, leaving him at the head of a three-bike train – and Arenas and Filip Salač (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team) needed no second invitation.
Guevara led Holgado at the front, and in the pack Gonzalez was now eighth and Moreira ninth, split by a second and a half with five to go. Then suddenly, Gonzalez was slowing, gesturing to the rear of the bike. Moreira sliced past him, Gonzalez dived into pitlane, and that was that despite the #18 heading back out after a rear tyre change. The 2025 Moto2 World Championship was decided: Brazil’s first ever champion in Grand Prix history is Diogo Moreira.
As he ticked down the laps, at the front there remained a race victory to be decided. Holgado was hounding Guevara but the #28 held firm, and on the very final lap Holgado couldn’t find a gap and then had a moment looking for one. Guevara takes his first Moto2 win, Holgado takes another podium and Ortola rounds off his rookie season on the rostrum.
Veijer takes fourth ahead of Salač crossing the line fifth, but the Czech rider then got a tyre pressure penalty dropping him down the order. Arenas takes fifth to sign off his Moto2™ career, Dixon leaves for pastures new with a P6 after a charge through the field, with Agius fading to seventh ahead of Vietti. Tony Arbolino (BLUCRU Pramac Yamaha Moto2) takes P9 with Moreira promoted to tenth.
That’s a wrap on 2025. A new World Champion is crowned from a new nation to achieve the feat, and we’ll be seeing a lot more from Moreira as he rolls back out in MotoGP on Tuesday in the Valencia Test. Parabens, Diogo – until Tuesday!
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