The 2015 FIM Moto2 World Championship was a part of the 67th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Marc VDS Racing Team rider Tito Rabat started the season as the defending riders' champion, having won his first championship title in 2014.
Rabat had been trailing by 78 points going to the Japanese Grand Prix. However, he had to withdraw from the event with a fractured left radius. Therefore, Johann Zarco became World Champion – the ninth different world champion in the intermediate class in as many years. [1] Ajo Motorsport rider Zarco won eight races during the season – to become the most successful French rider in Grand Prix racing [2] – and with a tally of 352 points, [3] set a record points total for the intermediate class; surpassing Rabat's 346 from 2014. With Rabat missing three races due to injury, rookie Álex Rins (Pons Racing) moved ahead in the standings, and despite Rabat winning the final race in Valencia, Rins finished second to seal the runner-up spot by three points. [3] Rins won two races at Indianapolis, [4] and Phillip Island, [5] while Rabat added his Valencia success to wins at Mugello and Motorland Aragón. [6] [7]
On one of the few non-Kalex motorcycles on the grid, Sam Lowes finished fourth in the championship for Speed Up, taking a race win at Circuit of the Americas, [8] holding off Derendinger Racing Interwetten's Thomas Lüthi, who won at Le Mans. [9] The season's only other race winners were Jonas Folger, who won at Losail and Jerez for the AGR Team, [10] [11] and Xavier Siméon, who took his first win for Gresini Racing at the Sachsenring. [12] Kalex comfortably won the manufacturers' championship; they won 17 of the season's 18 races, with only Lowes' success at Circuit of the Americas stopping a clean sweep of victories. Speed Up finished second in the championship, with 209 points to Kalex's 445.
The 2015 season was the last year that Eni was the sole fuel supplier for Moto2, as Total became the championship's fuel supplier in 2016.
The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme released an 18-race official calendar on 26 September 2014. [13]
A provisional entry list was released by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme on 23 October 2014. [33] An updated entry list was released on 2 February 2015. [34] All Moto2 competitors raced with an identical CBR600RR inline-four engine developed by Honda. Teams competed with tyres supplied by Dunlop.
Round | Grand Prix | Pole position | Fastest lap | Winning rider | Winning team | Winning constructor | Report |
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1 | Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix | Sam Lowes | Johann Zarco | Jonas Folger | AGR Team | Kalex | Report |
2 | Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas | Xavier Siméon | Sam Lowes | Sam Lowes | Speed Up Racing | Speed Up | Report |
3 | Argentine Republic motorcycle Grand Prix | Johann Zarco | Jonas Folger | Johann Zarco | Ajo Motorsport | Kalex | Report |
4 | Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix | Tito Rabat | Álex Rins | Jonas Folger | AGR Team | Kalex | Report |
5 | French motorcycle Grand Prix | Álex Rins | Thomas Lüthi | Thomas Lüthi | Derendinger Racing Interwetten | Kalex | Report |
6 | Italian motorcycle Grand Prix | Sam Lowes | Tito Rabat | Tito Rabat | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Kalex | Report |
7 | Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix | Johann Zarco | Álex Rins | Johann Zarco | Ajo Motorsport | Kalex | Report |
8 | Dutch TT | Johann Zarco | Tito Rabat | Johann Zarco | Ajo Motorsport | Kalex | Report |
9 | German motorcycle Grand Prix | Johann Zarco | Franco Morbidelli | Xavier Siméon | Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 | Kalex | Report |
10 | Indianapolis motorcycle Grand Prix | Álex Rins | Franco Morbidelli | Álex Rins | Paginas Amarillas HP 40 | Kalex | Report |
11 | Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix | Johann Zarco | Thomas Lüthi | Johann Zarco | Ajo Motorsport | Kalex | Report |
12 | British motorcycle Grand Prix | Sam Lowes | Florian Alt | Johann Zarco | Ajo Motorsport | Kalex | Report |
13 | San Marino and Rimini Riviera motorcycle Grand Prix | Johann Zarco | Jonas Folger | Johann Zarco | Ajo Motorsport | Kalex | Report |
14 | Aragon motorcycle Grand Prix | Tito Rabat | Álex Rins | Tito Rabat | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Kalex | Report |
15 | Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix | Johann Zarco | Jonas Folger | Johann Zarco | Ajo Motorsport | Kalex | Report |
16 | Australian motorcycle Grand Prix | Álex Rins | Álex Rins | Álex Rins | Paginas Amarillas HP 40 | Kalex | Report |
17 | Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix | Thomas Lüthi | Thomas Lüthi | Johann Zarco | Ajo Motorsport | Kalex | Report |
18 | Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix | Tito Rabat | Tito Rabat | Tito Rabat | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | Kalex | Report |
Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider had to finish the race to earn points.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th |
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Points | 25 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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Bold – Pole |
Each constructor received the same number of points as their best placed rider in each race.
Pos | Constructor | QAT | AME | ARG | SPA | FRA | ITA | CAT | NED | GER | INP | CZE | GBR | RSM | ARA | JPN | AUS | MAL | VAL | Pts |
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1 | Kalex | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 445 |
2 | Speed Up | 13 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 209 |
3 | Tech 3 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 14 | 19 | 11 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 12 | 18 | 15 | 39 |
4 | Suter | 21 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 24 | 21 | 24 | 23 | 19 | 24 | 10 | 22 | 18 | 6 | 14 | 14 | 19 | 20 |
5 | NTS | 13 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
6 | Moriwaki | 14 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
TransFIORmers | 26 | Ret | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
FTR | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
Pos | Constructor | QAT | AME | ARG | SPA | FRA | ITA | CAT | NED | GER | INP | CZE | GBR | RSM | ARA | JPN | AUS | MAL | VAL | Pts |
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