Moto2's new face: Alberto Ferrandez, from CIV triumphs to ambitions with Pramac Yamaha

Looking at the Moto2 entry list for the 2026 season, we can say that Alberto Ferrandez is the only rookie to be introduced to the World Championship audience. We already know very well, for example, José Antonio Rueda, Moto3 world champion and survivor of the very serious Sepang crash, and Angel Piqueras, the runner-up, as well as Luca Lunetta and Taiyo Furusato, who are also moving up from the smaller class, and Dani Munoz, arriving from Moto2 JuniorGP but with many world GPs under his belt between substitutions and wild cards. The newcomer to the Blu Cru Pramac Yamaha team, a Marc Marquez fan, is instead an almost complete debutant on the world stage, with the sole exception of the Misano GP this year with Team Ciatti-Boscoscuro. There’s an interesting Italian touch in his career, and not just recently.

Born in 2007 in Cox, in the province of Alicante, Alberto Ferrandez started riding at 6 years old on a minibike, a gift from his father, an amateur racer who later became his instructor, coach, mechanic... In short, the person who guided him into motorcycles. He began competing in no time, and the rewards came quickly, as he started taking home a good number of titles: a triple in 2015 in MiniMotos, he was unbeatable in 2016 across MiniGP, MiniMotard and ProMoGP, followed by another three titles in 2017 between Moto5 and the 85GP of the Campeonato Interautonomico de Velocidad (CIV), the latter won again in 2018 and 2019, the year he also clinched the PreMoto4 title in the Copa de España. Then there’s a sprinkle of Italian tricolor in his career—actually, let’s say it’s quite a substantial slice…

In addition to making a strong impression in Spain, Alberto Ferrandez also raced in the CIV Italian Speed Championship from 2020 to 2022, first starring in PreMoto3 and then in Moto3. Let’s go in order: in 2020 he was entered as a wild card in PreMoto3 by the Italian team GP Project2Wheels PoliTo, riding a bike from the Polytechnic University of Turin. In parallel with the FIM CEV Repsol (which he finished 3rd), he contested 4 out of 8 events, with one win, one 2nd, and one 3rd place. In 2021 he became an official rider for the same team and in the same category, missed two races due to clashes with the CEV, but it was a triumph: with an impressive five wins and two second places, plus other strong results, the Italian title arrived for the young rider from Alicante, which was at the same time the first tricolor success for GP Project and the Turin university’s program. In 2022 they moved up together to CIV Moto3: he had to miss four races due to clashes with the JuniorGP (the new name for the CEV) but finished 4th with one win, three second places and four third places.

In the last two years, as mentioned, we’ve seen him between ETC and Moto3 in the CEV/JuniorGP: Alberto Ferrandez recorded some podium finishes in both categories. In 2023 he also entered the Red Bull Rookies Cup, where he took a memorable triumph at Mugello in pouring rain, while in JuniorGP we witnessed the curious “double jump” from ETC to Moto2 mid-season. In 2024 he officially competed in Moto2 with the Boscoscuro of the Finetwork MIR Racing Team and was immediately impressive: one win, another 4 podiums, two poles and 4th overall. This 2025 has been more turbulent: he started again with the same team, then parted ways mid-season, filled in for a few races with GV Racing and finally, from Misano onwards, was with Team Ciatti-Boscoscuro, fighting for the title right up to the last race (which ended with a mistake and a zero). At 18, having turned in September, he’s now preparing for the big world stage challenge, once again with an Italian team and bike. In the past, that has worked out quite well…