Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing
The 2025 MotoGP season comes to a bittersweet end for the Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team, which takes a podium in the Grand Prix of the Valencian Community thanks to Fabio Di Giannantonio’s third place. It was a tough Sunday for Franco Morbidelli, who did not take part in the race after an accident on the starting grid.
Di Giannantonio immediately joined the fight for the podium thanks to an excellent start from the front row. Fabio managed his tyres well, arriving in the final stages of the race with strong pace that allowed him to secure third place after a duel decided by a great overtake. With his fourth podium of the year, the #49 rider ends his best MotoGP season ever in sixth place in the World Standings with 262 points.
It was an unlucky Sunday for Morbidelli, who was involved in an accident during the starting grid procedure. After the crash, Franco has been diagnosed with a fracture of the fifth metacarpal of his left hand and he will be forces to miss Tuesday’s test. The #21 rider ends the season in seventh place in the standings with 231 points.
The Grand Prix of the Valencian Community marks the end of the 2025 season, where Di Giannantonio secured a front-row start in qualifying, third place in the Sprint, and third place in the race. The team achieves a double podium for the second time this year and ends 2025 in the Top3 of the team standings with 493 points. MotoGP now stays at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo for the first day of 2026 testing, scheduled for Tuesday.
Fabio Di Giannantonio – 49
“Double podium in one weekend: this has been my best season in MotoGP. I’m super happy to finish the season like this. I also had a lot of fun today in the battles. At the start I didn’t have the pace to stay at the front, then I settled into my rhythm, even though it was too late to catch the first two. But I managed the rear tyre well and got to the end in good shape. In the last two laps I made my decisive overtake and took third place. I’m very proud of my team; we’ve always stuck together, even in the tough moments. We never gave up and always worked at our maximum. On Tuesday we have the tests for 2026, and we’ll already start working to be even stronger next year.”
Pablo Nieto – Team Manager
“We’re very happy to end the season with a podium. I think Diggia was really competitive throughout the whole weekend. Finishing third both in the Sprint and on Sunday is a great way to close the year and gives us huge motivation for next season. It’s a pity for Franky, he was feeling really good this weekend. Unfortunately, he fractured the fifth metacarpal in his left hand and will have to miss Tuesday’s test. Despite this small injury, overall I’m happy because he had a really strong season. We finish the season in the Top3 in the team Standings, and this is a very positive result that rewards the work of the whole team.”
Aprilia Racing
The 2025 season ended in the best possible way for Aprilia Racing. Marco Bezzecchi started from pole position and dominated the long race from flag to flag, taking his third win of the season. For the first time in his career, the Italian rider won two GP races in a row, dominating every lap from the front both in Portimão and in Valencia. Before him, no Aprilia rider had ever managed to take the lead for an entire Grand Prix race. With the pole position earned on Saturday, he also tied the record for number of poles won with Aprilia, set by Aleix Espargaró, and with the win in Valencia, he also matched Espargaró for the number of wins, with this being his third. This is also a historic milestone for Aprilia Racing. In fact, for the first time ever, the team has taken to consecutive MotoGP wins. For the manufacturer from Noale, this also marks their first victory in Valencia, where they had never before been on the podium, and it is the second one-two after the 2023 Barcelona race.
The Italian rider closes out a historic year – the most victorious ever for Aprilia Racing in MotoGP – made up of extraordinary numbers: 15 podiums in all, with 3 wins in the sprint races and 3 in the long races, as well as 5 pole positions. This set of results gave him third place in the riders championship and placed Aprilia Racing second in the Manufacturers Championship.
After starting from the seventeenth spot on the grid, Jorge Martín had to comply with two long lap penalties for the incident in Motegi. During the fifteenth lap, Aprilia Racing decided to withdraw Jorge Martín from the race as a precaution.
Completing the Aprilia celebrations was Trackhouse MotoGP Team’s Raúl Fernández who finished his home race in second place behind Bezzecchi, making it a brilliant one-two for the RS-GP25.
MARCO BEZZECCHI
“This was a fantastic season finale. Raúl definitely put me to a hard test during the race because he was really fast and good, especially in the finale, but at the start I had set up the race well and created some margin that I knew I’d be able to manage. The last two laps were not easy, but I wanted this victory so much and I just stayed super focused, trying not to make any mistakes whatsoever.”
JORGE MARTÍN
“I think withdrawing from the race was the right decision because I’m rather tired and I think it’s smart to turn up fresh on Tuesday so we can do a good test, since we have several things to try. There was no point in tiring myself out now without achieving anything of substance.”
MASSIMO RIVOLA
“Finally a season finale as protagonists. It was fantastic to see two Aprilias out front, as we wait for Jorge and Ai to be at 100% as well. The statistics this year are extremely important. Marco had a perfect season, finishing third in the championship with a good margin. As manufacturers, we have seen our growth and we surpassed 400 points to clinch second place. All of this must not be enough for us, but it should be motivation for a 2026 as protagonists. A 2026 that actually begins already on Tuesday, and where we can’t wait to test the many upgrades that are being cranked out constantly from Noale. An immense thank you to the Piaggio Group for supporting us with great faith, and obviously to all the guys and girls in Noale who have done a brilliant job and who will certainly do an even better job next year. Forza Aprilia!”
Red Bull KTM Factory Racing
For the 27th time since 1999, MotoGP rounded the looping 4km layout at the Ricardo Tormo circuit, a short distance west of Valencia. Red Bull KTM Factory Racing and Red Bull KTM Tech3 entered the fray for the last time this season with 5th, 15th, 20th and 21st positions on the grid and with hopes for maximum points and podium contention.
Pedro Acosta was fractions of a second from Pole Position and obtained his sixth Sprint podium of the season on Saturday. The 21-year-old made another decent start for the Grand Prix on Sunday afternoon. He found track space in P5 then glided up to P4 and hunted the rear wheel of P3; making the move on lap 19. Pedro couldn’t quite hold on during an intense duel to the flag but his P4 meant a fifth consecutive top five ranking. The checkered flag brought Acosta to 307 points and P4 in the standings. He also added five podiums to his CV in 2025.
Brad Binder made his customary flight through to the top ten, and mixed up the order pushing for 6th: an impressive barrel from P15 on the grid. Enea Bastianini was also very proactive just a few positions behind Brad. The Italian fought with two other factory bikes and made sure of six points for P10 at the end while Binder crossed the line in 8th.
Maverick Viñales accumulated more mileage in the latest rehab phase for his left shoulder. #12 raced for 23 laps trying to hit his lines and markers at the Ricardo Tormo. Maverick made three top five GP results in 2025: his first season with the KTM RC16.
The 2025 figures reveal a total of six MotoGP podiums for the Red Bull KTM teams including three runner-up places as well as one fastest lap. The quest to boost these figures further for 2026 begins on Tuesday at Valencia with the first IRTA test ahead of the new campaign.
Pedro Acosta, 4th and 4th in the championship standings: “It could have been better but we gave what we could. We really had to manage the tires today and we missed grip at the start. For how we started the championship then to come back to 4th is not too bad and we were consistently in the top five but it was still not enough. I learned a lot as a rider…but I want more. We’ll cross our fingers for the Tuesday test and we’ll see what we have but then we have time until the test in Sepang next year.”
Brad Binder, 8th and 11th in the championship standings: “I wanted more from today. I had a good start again, not quite like yesterday, but I wanted to pick-off more guys but I lacked a bit more pace and the best I could manage today was 8th. A tough year. I feel like I can do a lot better than I did. Things did not gel this season, even if we did make some small improvements at the end. I’m looking forward to Tuesday.”
Enea Bastianini, 10th and 14th in the championship standings: “A good start and the first five laps were great. I was confident of recovering more positions but then my front tire dropped a lot and my dream of another comeback stopped. I was floating in the apexes so it was hard to keep the lap-times and I could not fight for more. It was strange because normally I can manage that part of the race but I reached the limit today. Apart from the mid-corners I was competitive and I saved the top ten. Now we work for Tuesday and I also know where I need to improve this winter.”
Maverick Viñales, DNF and 18th in the championship standings: “A hard race but I had good motivation and I was catching guys until my arm started to get tired and I made mistakes, running wide and going into parts of the track that had no grip. There was no need risk more in a part of the year that has no meaning. I did not want to cause a crash. For me the season has been very positive and I feel I made a big improvement on the mental side. It is important now to work well and get fit. I can’t wait until next year.”
Aki Ajo, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team Manager: “A solid finish to the season for us with three riders in the top ten and we can be happy with this. We had high expectations because the progress has been good and positive in the last months and in Portimao last week we were close to the top with Pedro. Tracks and circumstances change and the competition in MotoGP is so tight that results can be different. Anyway, we can be very happy with our trajectory this season. If someone had asked me at the Grand Prix of the Americas where we’d be at the end of the year then I would not have dreamt or imagined we’d be in this situation. We always want more but we have made big steps. We need to push on because we are getting closer to our target.”
Gresini Racing
FERMIN ALDEGUER #54
“It’s always important to finish the season with a good result. To overtake your teammate at the last corner is not the most pleasant thing, I wish it was another rider. Thanks to Gresini and Ducati for allowing me to experience an incredibly smooth season, and now it’s time to think about 2026.”
ALEX MARQUEZ #73
“We don’t know exactly what happened. We need to analyse the data. Between the fifth and the seventh lap, we lost a lot of performance and now we’ll work to get a better understanding of it. A sixth place is not the type of result we wanted to finish the season with, especially after feeling good on the bike in the early stages. Still, it’s a 9 out of 10 season.”
Raceday – ValenciaGP
5th – FERMIN ALDEGUER #54
6th – ALEX MARQUEZ #73
World Championship Standings
2nd – ALEX MARQUEZ #73 (467 points)
Runner Up MotoGP 2025
8th – FERMIN ALDEGUER #54 (214 points)
Rookie of the Year 2025
Ducati Lenovo
The Ducati Lenovo Team has completed the 2025 edition of the MotoGP World Championship with the final race of the season at Valencia’s ‘Circuito Ricardo Tormo’. Nicolò Bulega was fifteenth at the flag, while Francesco Bagnaia crashed during the opening lap’s close scrap.
Bulega, eleventh in the warmup, managed – after a challenging start – to finish the encounter in fifteenth place. Bagnaia got a good start from row six as he made his way up to tenth position. At turn four, following a coming together, Pecco ran off track, with his race coming to an unfortunate premature end.
The season draws to a close with Marc Márquez as World Champion and Francesco Bagnaia fifth in the final standings. The Triple Crown is completed by the Teams’ Title secured by the Ducati Lenovo Team and by the Constructors’ Championship won by Ducati.
The Ducati Lenovo Team will resume proceedings this Tuesday, November 18th, for the first official test ahead of the 2026 season, taking place at the same track in Valencia.
Nicolò Bulega (#11 Ducati Lenovo Team) – 15th
“We made a modification to the bike in this morning’s warm up and it worked, as I had better grip. The start to the race wasn’t the best as I had to ride with a lowered front fork up to turn five. Then, I struggled with grip, especially at the rear-end, and under acceleration. In any case, I’m satisfied with this experience: I made my debut at the penultimate event and the level is extremely high. I’ll try to make a step forward in Tuesday’s test, trying to lap as much as I can and to improve my confidence with the bike.”
Francesco Bagnaia (#63 Ducati Lenovo Team) – DNF
“Unfortunately these situations are part of our sport. It was a racing incident. It was surely positive the fact that I didn’t get hurt, as during the crash the boot hit the wheel. I felt better at the start compared to yesterday: I overtook some riders and some more straight afterwards, and recovered six positions in total. Then the incident happened. It was a really challenging season, so now I want to focus on Tuesday’s test. The goal is to make a step forward and lay the foundations upon which we’ll start working towards 2026.”
Honda HRC Castrol
The season ended on a high for Honda HRC Castrol as Luca Marini achieved the target of seventh place while Joan Mir authored another strong recovery ride after his Long Lap Penalty.
Overcoming the momentary blip of Saturday, the Honda HRC Castrol team ended their resurgent 2025 season on a positive note with both riders showing the speed for the top ten. Achieving the primary objective as a manufacturer and ‘leveling up’ from D to C Concessions, cementing a clear sign of the progress made by Honda HRC in 2025. With one win and three podiums, Honda finish the year fourth in the Constructor standings with 285 points – 210 points more than in 2024.
Crossing the line in seventh place, Luca Marini was able to take the final points required for the C Concessions and end his season on a positive note. Failing to score just once on Sunday and earning 12 top-ten Grand Prix finishes, 2025 was a marked improvement for the Italian aboard the factory Honda. 13th in the final World Championship standings, Marini finished as the second highest placed Honda and achieved a best result of fifth in Hungary.
Joan Mir signed off his season with a spirited ride, showing the pace of the top five as he cut through the field after his Long Lap Penalty from Saturday’s collision. 13th when the flag came out at the end of the Valencia GP, Mir finishes the championship in 15th and with two hard-fought podiums to his name. There is no doubting Mir’s speed and the still untapped potential he and Honda have together.
The pace of development can never relent, and the 2026 season will start in just 48 hours, on Tuesday November 18.
Luca Marini
Seventh
“A fantastic result in the end, we really needed this seventh place and I was so focused on getting it. With how we were looking until this morning, it seemed hard at some points, but I think it shows the progress we have made this year to be able to overcome this. Thank you to my crew, to Honda, not just for today but for the whole year – we have improved the whole bike so much and we’re already looking forward to next year. I’m really happy to stay inside the Honda family because it’s a great group and we are all working together very well and heading in the right direction. Something to celebrate tonight before it’s straight back to work on Tuesday. Thanks to everyone.”
Joan Mir
13th
“From the start of the race, we didn’t have the best grip but I was able to be quite comfortable. Then I did the Long Lap Penalty, and I had to restart my progress, coming through quite well again until there was quite a big drop in performance at the end of the race. We need to check and understand why we had such a big drop. Anyway, we have a chance now to look back at the whole season and be pleased with the high points in Motegi and Sepang. Of course, there were complicated moments, but I think overall we need to be pleased with what we have done over this year and aim to do more in 2026. The direction of travel is correct and on Tuesday we continue our work.”
