A wild six-way race: The state of play in the Moto2 World Championship ahead of the 2026 final sprint

Looking at the current state of play in the Moto2 World Championship, there is more than one thing it has in common with the premier class of the paddock. The most obvious – and here we must also include the Moto3 support class – is that Spanish riders are setting the pace. Whilst in MotoGP, the Italians Marco Bezzecchi and Fabio Di Giannantonio, in third and fourth place respectively, are still in touch with the very front of the field, the middle class is currently exclusively in Spanish hands.

Manuel Gonzalez, the frontrunner of the German Intact GP team, has led the World Championship standings since the season-opener in Thailand. The Madrid-born rider has made it onto the podium nine times amidst fierce competition, and has stood at the top of the podium five times. Remarkably, Gonzalez has scored points in every race of 2026 so far.

But the record of his closest challenger is equally impressive. Izan Guevara is the only other rider in the top 10, alongside Gonzalez, to have scored points in every race so far. Thanks to two wins and steadily improving form throughout the season, the gap remains within manageable limits – Guevara trails by 35.5 points ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix. With seven races officially remaining and 175 points still up for grabs, the Pramac rider therefore still has a realistic chance of starting the MotoGP season with Yamaha as champion.

As for the teams, it’s Germany versus Spain

Added to this is the psychological advantage of the challenger – and the extra motivation from Pramac’s Moto2 squad. For whilst the elite MotoGP team was demoted from world champions to backmarkers following the merger with Yamaha, Gino Borsoi’s team is determined to do everything it can to secure the title in the middleweight class – and it goes without saying that Intact GP will be equally committed to holding them off.

The third Spaniard, Ivan Ortola, should not be written off either. In his second year in Moto2, the MSi rider has made enormous progress. After an unremarkable first half of the season, Ortola came into his own. Between Brno and San Marino, no other rider scored more points. Trailing by 77 points (with Bezzecchi, third in MotoGP, 42 points behind), Ivan Ortola – who, like championship leader Gonzalez, will also be racing in Moto2 in 2027 – remains the high-calibre dark horse.

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Die Top-3 der Moto2: Gonzalez, Guevara, Ortola (von links)

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The battle for third place in the World Championship in the middleweight class, however, remains wide open, just as it does for his MotoGP counterparts. For a long time, Senna Agius looked set to be a front-runner, but recently everything has gone against the future KTM Tech3 MotoGP rider. At Misano, the Aussie was taken out by Angel Piqueras; in Austria, he crashed in qualifying and again scored zero points in the race. As a result, Senna Agius quickly dropped from third to fifth place. He is already 96.5 points behind his team-mate Gonzalez. However, he is just 6 points behind the rider ahead of him, Aspar rider David Alonso.

Senna Agius fiel zuletzt auf WM-Rang 5 zurück

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Alonso, who – like Agius, Guevara and team-mate Holgado – is set to move up to MotoGP in 2027, is having an exceptional season. A win at Assen and three further podium finishes are offset by no fewer than four races in which he scored no points. Trailing the leader by 90.5 points, there is a strong chance that, unlike during his dominant Moto3 campaign in 2024, David Alonso will not be promoted as the title-holder this time.

David Alonso: Der WM-Vierte fährt 2027 MotoGP

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Dani Holgado also has a good chance of securing a top-three finish in the final standings. The winner of the Brazilian Grand Prix is just three points behind Agius and 22.5 points behind Ortola, who sits third in the World Championship.

By contrast, there is little to debate in the Manufacturers’ and Teams’ Championships. With a lead of over 120 points over Italy’s Boscoscuro, Kalex is just as clearly on course for the title as Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP is in the Teams’ Championship. The Memmingen-based team currently hold Jorge ‘Aspar’ Martinez’s CF Moto team at bay with a 93.5-point lead. In the Moto2 World Championship, this would be the greatest success for the only German team in the GP paddock.