Moto3 once again delivered some of the most interesting and exciting racing the Grand Prix paddock had to offer this season. With so much going on throughout the year, here is a breakdown of the key points you may have missed this season.
2025 was the first season in the class’s history in which two rookies finished in the top four of the world championship. We have, of course, seen standout riders such as Pedro Acosta win the title on their debut season, but never has Moto3 seen two rookies so high up in the final points standings. Aspar’s Maximo Quilles and KTM Ajo’s Alvaro Carpe finished the season in third and fourth respectively.
Moreover, Quilles’ third-place finish overall makes him only the third rookie ever to end the year in the top three. The only two other riders to do so were Pedro Acosta, who won the title in 2021 and David Alonso, who also finished third overall in 2023.
Jose Antonio Rueda’s eight wins for the season give him the third-highest number of victories in a single Moto3 season. Only David Alonso (14) and Joan Mir (10) have more than Rueda. This puts the Spaniard ahead of the likes of Jorge Martin, Brad Binder and Pedro Acosta for wins in a single season.
The 2025 season featured six different race winners, four of whom were first-time race winners, these being David Munoz, Taiyo Furusato, Adrian Fernandez and Maximo Quilles. Fifteen different riders stepped onto the podium throughout the year.
On the topic of race wins, KTM enjoyed its most dominant season ever in the Moto3 class, winning all but two of the 20 races this year. The only non-KTM riders to win this year were Honda Team Asia’s Taiyo Furusato and Leopard Racing’s Adrian Fernandez.
Furusato’s win makes him only the third Japanese rider to win a race in Moto3. The other two are Kaito Toba and Tatsuki Suzuki. All three taking their wins on Honda machinery.
Adrian Fernandez’s win at Valencia made him and Raul Fernandez the second pair of brothers to both have won in Moto3 and only the fourth brother pairing in Grand Prix history to win. Other brothers to have won (in any of the three classes) are Aleix and Pol Espargaro, Alex and Marc Marquez and Can and Deniz Oncu.
Riders from fourteen different nationalities lined up on the Moto3 grid at one point or another this season. Whilst Spain and Italy once again made up the majority of the grid, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia, Ireland, Britain, Austria, Switzerland, Argentina, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa all had representatives.
2025 marked the third season in a row that no Italian rider ended the year inside the top ten overall. The top-placed rider hailing from Italy was Luca Lunetta, who finished the season in twelfth place – though had his season not been thwarted by injury, you would imagine him to have been much higher up. Fellow countryman, Matteo Bertelle, would also likely have ended the year inside the top ten had it not been for injury.
Britain’s Scott Ogden had his strongest year in Moto3 to date, ending the season in fifteenth overall. The CIP KTM rider scored a pole position and three top ten finishes, with the highest result of a seventh place.
2025 was the first season in the class’s history that three riders from the British Isles scored points, with Eddie O’Shea and Irishman Casey O’Gorman both scoring points. Notably, O’Gorman finished the Portuguese Grand Prix in sixth place in only his third appearance at World Championship level.
2025 was yet another bumper year for the lightweight class. With several big names remaining in the series for 2026, next season is sure to be just as exciting.
