2026 Moto2 World Championship

2026 FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

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Parent series:
2026 MotoGP World Championship
Feeder series:
2026 Moto3 World Championship
Support series:
2026 Harley-Davidson Bagger World Cup

The 2026 FIM Moto2 World Championship will be the intermediate class of the 78th FIM Road Racing World Championship season.

Teams and riders

Team Constructor Motorcycle No. Rider Blu Cru Pramac Yamaha Moto2 [1] Boscoscuro B-26 TBA TBA TBA TBA Elf Marc VDS Racing Team [2] 44 Arón Canet [3] 53 Deniz Öncü [4] SpeedRS Team 13 Celestino Vietti [5] TBA Luca Lunetta [5] Klint Forward Factory Team Forward F2 9 Jorge Navarro [6] 11 Álex Escrig [7] CFMoto Aspar Team Kalex Moto2 27 Daniel Holgado [8] 80 David Alonso [8] Fantic Racing Lino Sonego 7 Barry Baltus [9] TBA TBA Idemitsu Honda Team Asia 64 Mario Aji [10] TBA Taiyo Furusato [10] Italjet Gresini Moto2 3 Sergio García [11] 21 Alonso López [11] Italtrans Racing Team 17 Daniel Muñoz [12] 99 Adrián Huertas [13] Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP 18 Manuel González [14] 81 Senna Agius [15] QJMotor – Frinsa – MSi [16] 4 Iván Ortolá [17] TBA Ángel Piqueras [18] OnlyFans American Racing Team 12 Filip Salač [19] 16 Joe Roberts [20] Red Bull KTM Ajo 95 Collin Veijer [21] TBA José Antonio Rueda [21] RW-Idrofoglia Racing GP 71 Ayumu Sasaki [22] 84 Zonta van den Goorbergh [23] Source: [24]

Key Regular rider Replacement rider Wildcard rider

All teams will use series-specified Pirelli tyres and Triumph 765cc 3-cylinder engines. ^{[25] [26]}

Rider changes

• Luca Lunetta will make his debut in the intermediate class for SpeedRS Team after spending two seasons in Moto3 with Sic58 Squadra Corse. He will be replacing Alonso López, who will leave the team to join Gresini Racing.
• Ángel Piqueras will be promoted to the Moto2 outfit of the MSi team, joining Iván Ortolá as his new teammate.
• Daniel Muñoz, who was appointed as a replacement rider for the injured Deniz Öncü for the second half of the 2025 season, will make his full-time debut in the intermediate class by joining the Italtrans Racing Team. He will replace Diogo Moreira who will be stepping up to the MotoGP class, riding for LCR Honda.
• Italjet Gresini Racing will be fielding an all-new line up as Darryn Binder and Albert Arenas will leave the team. Both riders will be replaced by Sergio García and Alonso López. López will be moving from SpeedRS Team, whilst García will make his full-time comeback in Moto2 after being prematurely dismissed in 2025 from the MSi team due to poor results.
• Elf Marc VDS Racing Team will be fielding an all-new line up as Arón Canet and Deniz Öncü will be joining the team from Fantic Racing Lino Sonego and Red Bull KTM Ajo, respectively. Both will replace Filip Salac and Jake Dixon. While Salac will join American Racing, Dixon will permanently leave the category to join Honda on a multi-year-deal from the 2026 Superbike World Championship season onwards.
• José Antonio Rueda, 2025 Moto3 World Champion, will make his intermediate class debut with the Red Bull KTM Ajo team, joining Collin Veijer who will be going into his second season with the team.
• Marcos Ramírez was due to race for American Racing in 2026. On 7 November 2025, it was announced that both the team and rider had mutually agreed to end their collaboration at the end of the 2025 season. Ramírez will be replaced by Filip Salac, who will be moving from Elf Marc VDS Racing Team.
• Taiyo Furusato will be promoted to the Moto2 outfit of the Idemitsu Honda Team Asia to join Mario Aji. He will be replacing his japanese compatriot Yuki Kunii, who will be leaving the class after facing a disappointing rookie season.

Calendar

The following 22 Grands Prix are scheduled to take place in 2026: ^[27]

Round	Date	Grand Prix	Circuit	Ref.
1	1 March	Thailand motorcycle Grand Prix	Chang International Circuit, Buriram	[28]
2	22 March	Brazilian motorcycle Grand Prix	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna, Goiânia	[29]
3	29 March	Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas	Circuit of the Americas, Austin	[30]
4	12 April	Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix	Lusail International Circuit, Lusail	[31]
5	26 April	Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix	Circuito de Jerez – Ángel Nieto, Jerez de la Frontera	[32]
6	10 May	French motorcycle Grand Prix	Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans	[33]
7	17 May	Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló	[34]
8	31 May	Italian motorcycle Grand Prix	Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello, Scarperia e San Piero	[35]
9	7 June	Hungarian motorcycle Grand Prix	Balaton Park Circuit, Balatonfőkajár	[36]
10	21 June	Czech Republic motorcycle Grand Prix	Brno Circuit, Brno	[37]
11	28 June	Dutch TT	TT Circuit Assen, Assen	[38]
12	12 July	German motorcycle Grand Prix	Sachsenring, Hohenstein-Ernstthal	[39]
13	9 August	British motorcycle Grand Prix	Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone	[40]
14	30 August	Aragon motorcycle Grand Prix	MotorLand Aragón, Alcañiz	[41]
15	13 September	San Marino and Rimini Riviera motorcycle Grand Prix	Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico	[42]
16	20 September	Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg	[43]
17	4 October	Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix	Mobility Resort Motegi, Motegi	[44]
18	11 October	Indonesian motorcycle Grand Prix	Pertamina Mandalika International Street Circuit, Mandalika	[45]
19	25 October	Australian motorcycle Grand Prix	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, Phillip Island	[46]
20	1 November	Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix	Petronas Sepang International Circuit, Sepang	[27]
21	15 November	Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix	Algarve International Circuit, Portimão	[47]
22	22 November	Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix	Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia	[48]

Grand Prix locations

Lusail

Motegi

Buriram

Phillip Island

Sepang

Goiânia

Austin

Mandalika

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Location of non-European Grands Prix in 2026.

Portimão

Jerez

Le Mans

Scarperia

Montmeló

Hohenstein-Ernstthal

Assen

Spielberg

Silverstone

Cheste

Misano Adriatico

Alcañiz

Brno

Balatonfőkajár

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Location of European Grands Prix in 2026.

Calendar changes

• MotoGP will return to Brazil in 2026 after a 21-year absence. The last time MotoGP was held in Brazil was in 2004 at the Jacarepaguá Circuit in Rio de Janeiro, where it was known as the Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix. ^[49]
• The Argentine Grand Prix will not be returning to calendar in 2026, organisers have confirmed in a statement, they hope to return in 2027. The Argentina Grand Prix came back onto the calendar in 2014 at the new Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo venue, having previously been held on and off in Buenos Aires between 1961 and 1999. ^[50] However on 21 July 2025, Dorna announced that the Argentine Grand Prix would have a new home starting in the 2027 season. Work is underway to return to the Autódromo Oscar y Juan Gálvez. ^[51]

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