Moto2 title up for grabs in Valencia: Moreira eyes history, Gonzalez chases the impossible

Diogo Moreira or Manuel Gonzalez, one of the two will be crowned Moto2 champion in the grand finale at Valencia. It’s the only class still open until the very end, even if the standings show a situation that favors one of them in particular. None other than the Italtrans Brazilian, a future LCR Honda rookie in MotoGP, who has a hefty 24-point lead over the Intact GP Spaniard. A role reversal that was hard to imagine at the start of the season: Manuel Gonzalez began as the heavy favorite and looked truly unbeatable... Then something changed, along with a fired-up Diogo Moreira who caught fire and put together a major comeback. It will take very little to decide everything.

With a GP victory there would certainly be no calculations to make. Diogo Moreira would become the first Brazilian world champion not only in Moto2, but in the entire Motorcycle World Championship. More broadly, though, there’s no need to look for big results, given we’re talking about a very significant margin with just one race left to run. Without too much math, Moreira simply needs to do no worse than 13th in the race and it would be done. What better calling card for his debut in MotoGP in 2026? Not to mention writing history for his country, which, in fact, will return to hosting a world Grand Prix next year at the Autódromo Ayrton Senna.

Even here, we don’t need too many calculations: the Intact GP Spaniard must achieve just one result—he has to win. That’s not enough: his rival must score at most one point, so finish 15th at the line, or do even worse, meaning finish outside the points. A scenario that, unfortunately, seems quite hard to imagine given Moreira’s current pace and Gonzalez’s struggles in the second half of the season. Until we have the final verdict, however, we can say that anything can still happen.