· Celestino Vietti (Kalex) won his home race in Moto2 starting from second on the grid. Barry Baltus, second, and Daniel Holgado, third, both on Kalex, complete the podium. All the riders used Pirelli tyres in the soft SC1 compound at the front and the new supersoft in E0126 specification at the rear. Manuel Gonzalez, sixth at the finish line, set the new fastest lap of the race in 1’34.759 on the fourth lap, improving by more than seven tenths of a second on the one set by Vietti last year (1’35.469). As many as 14 of the 30 riders in the race lapped below the 2024 best race lap.
· José Antonio Rueda (KTM) took his eighth win of the season in Moto3 after starting from fourth on the grid and battling until the last corner with three other riders: Maximo Quiles (KTM), second at the finish line, Adrian Fernandez (Honda), third, and Australian Joel Kelso (KTM), fourth. Polesitter Valentin Perrone (KTM) set the new fastest lap of the race on lap 11 in 1’40.463. The first two riders on the podium used medium SC2 front and soft SC1 rear tyres while Fernandez made the opposite choice, with SC1 front and SC2 rear. Apart from the latter, only David Almansa (Honda) used a medium rear while all the other riders used the soft SC1.
· Both races were faster than those of 2024: in Moto2 the overall duration (35.03.863) was reduced by more than 10 seconds for an average lap improvement of almost half a second, while Moto3, despite being extremely hard-fought until the last corner, closed in 33:48.906 for an overall improvement of more than 4 seconds.
· On Tuesday 16 September, the Misano circuit will also be the setting for the first tests with the first prototypes of Pirelli tyres for MotoGP. Pirelli will have the tyres tested by the teams’ test riders to get their feedback and continue development.
