For the longest time, grand prix motorcycle racing's middleweight class Moto2 has been something of a stepchild, frequently generating relatively boring racing that has paled in comparison to both Moto3 and MotoGP.
However, in 2025 Moto2 has evolved into something else entirely. It’s not just significantly improving but turning into the ultimate goldilocks mix of close racing and strategy that’s been missing from MotoGP in particular as races increasingly become about managing front tyre pressure.
We’ve now seen two races in a row where Moto2 championship contenders Aron Canet and Diogo Moreira have given us an amazing show over the last few laps, with very different styles from the pair contributing to some fantastic racing as Canet’s experience and strategy plays out against 2026 MotoGP hopeful Moreira’s aggression and raw talent.
It’s not just been the two of them delivering, though. Since the switch from Dunlop to Pirelli at the start of the 2024 season, we’ve seen consistently better and closer Moto2 racing, as the added element of tyre conservation has forced racers to better utilise strategy.
Time will tell, of course, whether we’ve just been blessed with a particularly competitive field in 2025. But if last year’s action was anything to go by, it seems to be a case of the rules and tyre combination being just right, something that bodes well for plenty more good races to come in the future.
In comparison, Moto3 remains the frenetic battle that it’s always been - but while there’s a certain joy in the chaos which means any one of a dozen riders is usually in with a chance of a race win on the final lap, there’s more joy for me in seeing two riders going at it hammer and tongs for the victory in a cleaner fight.
We know, after all, that the secret to Moto3 success often comes from simply being fast enough to hang onto the coattails of the fastest riders until the final few laps, at which point do-or-die passes can often be relied upon to help make up places.
Less about talent and more about bravery. It isn’t just chaotic, it’s often dangerous, something that the last lap pile up at the last round at Assen highlighted well - and something that the series’ proposed new rules - ditching 250cc singles for 500cc twins - hopes to move away from.
It also contrasts significantly with the dull affair that MotoGP has become of late, with the addition of complex ride height devices and aerodynamics overloading Michelin’s front tyre to the point where races are won or lost in the opening handful of laps before tyre pressures spike and overtaking becomes all but impossible.
But this situation does also bode well for a return to close racing in MotoGP in 2027, when we won’t just see a rule change that will ban devices and reduce the aero, the premier class will trade Michelin for Pirelli.
In the meantime, though, we’ve got the goldilocks racing that sits in the middle, with Moto2 very much generating the best of both worlds and providing somewhat unexpectedly good entertainment in the middle of the grand prix schedule.
