This weekend, the Ricardo Tormo Circuit will host the eighth and final round of the FIM CEV Repsol season.
An exciting weekend awaits with the Junior Moto3™ World Championship and European Talent Cup titles still to be determined. During the last round in Albacete, Jesko Raffin (Swiss Innovative Investors Junior) was proclaimed champion of the European Moto2™ Championship for the second time.
En Moto3™, Raul Fernandez (Angel Nieto Team) arrives as clear favorites to take the title before making the move to the World Championship. The winner of the last race in Albacete arrives in Valencia with 49 points ahead of Manuel Pagliani (Leopard Junior), second, with only 50 points at stake.
However, Manuel Pagliani's team have already announced that they will not participate in Valencia due to personal problems. However, we will have to wait for the outcome of Saturday's qualifying for Raúl Fernández to be proclaimed champion, unless the Leopard Junior driver shows up at the last minute.
Yuki Kunii (Asia Talent Team), Jeremy Alcoba (Junior Team Estrella Galicia 0.0), Sergio Garcia (Junior Team Estrella Galicia 0.0) and Ai Ogura (Asia Talent Team) will fight for second place.
Eyes will nevertheless be turned towards Can Öncü (Red Bull KTM Ajo), who last Sunday became the youngest rider to win a World Championship event. Red Bull KTM team rider Ajo won the Moto3™ race at the Gran Premio Motul de la Comunitat Valenciana where he participated as a wild card, competing in his first World Championship race. However, he should watch out for his twin brother Deniz Oncu who will ride next year within the team Red Bull KTM Ajo in FIM CEV and who has roughly the same talent... and finished 2nd this year in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, behind his brother!
44 pilots are registered for these last 2 races of the season.
Moto2™: With Jesko Raffin proclaimed champion during the penultimate race of the season and Edgar Pons (AGR Team) already a finalist, the interest of the former intermediate category is to see who can take third place in the general classification. Dimas Ekky (Astra Honda Racing Team), Xavier Cardelús (Team Stylobike), Lukas Tulovik (Team Wimu CNS), Héctor Garzó (Team Wimu CNS) and Tommaso Marcon (Team Ciatti) are all in the race with at least a mathematical chance. As in Moto3, although the first three will not participate in the race, we will once again have to wait until the end of qualifying to be able to eliminate them definitively.
Finally, in ETC, after finishing 3rd in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, Xavier Artigas (Honda Impala) leads the general classification, 19 points ahead Victor Rodriguez (Ikono Motorbike Laglisse) and 21 points ahead david savior (Cuna de Campeones); with 25 points at stake, the battle to be champion is decided in the last race of the season. Xavier Artigas has everything it takes to race next season in the Junior Moto3™ World Championship with the Leopard Junior team as champion of the second edition of the ETC.
We will also follow the French Lorenzo Fellon (Ajo Motorsport), Clement Rougé (CIP Junior Team), Vincent Falcone (TFC Racing) and Marius Henry (Selectmachines) among the 56 pilots entered.
The racing schedule for next Sunday is as follows:
Moto3™ Race 1 (18 laps): 11.00
ETC (17 laps): 12.00
Moto2™ (19 laps): 13.00:XNUMX p.m.
Moto3™ Race 2 (18 laps): 14.00
The races can be viewed live on Youtube
