Senna Agius won the FIM Moto2 World Championship race Sunday at Circuito de Jerez – Ángel Nieto, in Spain. Riding his Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP Kalex on Pirelli control tires, the Australian rider won the 21-lap race by 0.885 second.
His teammate, Manuel Gonzalez was the runner-up.
Collin Veijer was a close third on his Red Bull KTM Ajo Kalex.
David Alonso got fourth on his CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team Kalex.
Celestino Vietti took fifth on his Beta Tools SpeedRS Team Boscoscuro.
American Joe Roberts finished the race 15th on his OnlyFans American Racing Team Kalex.
Manuel Gonzalez leads the championship with 59.5 points, 9.5 ahead of Senna Agius who has 50 points. Izan Guevara is third with 45 points.
Classification MOTO2
worldstanding MOTO2
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Agius fends off Gonzalez and Veijer to clinch back-to-back wins. COTA? Check. Jerez? Check. The Aussie makes it two from two as a brilliant battle for Moto2 honours unfolds at the Spanish GP.
Back-to-back wins for the first time? That’ll do very nicely for Spanish GP winner Senna Agius (Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP) after a tense, three-way fight for the win. World Championship leader Manuel Gonzalez handed the team a dream 1-2 as the Spaniard stands on the Jerez rostrum for the second year in a row, as polesitter Collin Veijer (Red Bull KTM Ajo) earns his first podium of 2026 in P3.
The holeshot went the way of 2025 Spanish GP winner Gonzalez, but Veijer didn’t hang around long and attacked to take the lead at Turn 6. David Alonso (CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team) got a horrible getaway and went from the second row to P17 on Lap 1, with Austin winner Agius climbing to an early P2.
Alonso moved up to P11 by the end of Lap 1, and another rider moving up the order was Barry Baltus (REDS Fantic Racing). Having got past front row starter Alex Escrig (KLINT Factory Team), the Belgian was P5 behind Veijer, Agius, Gonzalez, and Alonso Lopez (ITALJET Grresini Moto2), with Alonso P8 at the end of Lap 4.
Lap 5 saw the lead change hands four times as Agius and Veijer engaged in battle, and up at Turn 1 on Lap 6, there was contact between Alonso, teammate Daniel Holgado, and Escrig in the scrap for sixth. That cost the Colombian four places, with the #80 and Holgado now P10 and P9.
More drama then arrived. Baltus, one of the pre-race favourites, crashed out while sitting in P4 at Turn 6, and then the rider who was promoted to P4, Lopez, crashed moments later. Surely now, it was a three-rider fight for the win. Veijer, Agius and Gonzalez were locked together, four seconds up the road from Escrig.
On Lap 14, a big move came for Agius at Turn 8. The Australian carved up the inside of the Dutchman for the lead, and a corner later, home hero Gonzalez demoted Veijer to P3. Was that the race-winning move for Agius?
Having led for a few laps, Agius couldn’t fully shake off the Gonzalez and Veijer threat. At the beginning of Lap 19 of 21, Agius’ advantage was just under three tenths, with Veijer a further 0.4s in arrears, and heading onto the final lap, it was pretty much as you were.
Could Gonzalez reel in his teammate, and did Veijer have anything left? The answer was no. Agius had threatened to do this all weekend, and for the first time in Moto2, the Australian secured back-to-back victories. Gonzalez and Veijer completed the podium, with that P2 seeing the Spaniard hold onto the championship lead.
Alonso rolled out some magnificent pace to finish just two seconds off the win in P4, with the Colombian ruing his awful start to the Grand Prix, and the contact with Escrig and Holgado. Celestino Vietti (Beta Tools SpeedRS Team) also unravelled a great race to finish P5, with Daniel Muñoz (Italtrans Racing Team) completing the top six.
Izan Guevara (BLU CRU Pramac Yamaha Moto2) came from P12 on the grid to finish P7, with Agius jumping ahead of the Spaniard into P2 in the standings.
Tony Arbolino (REDS Fantic Racing), Escrig and Ivan Ortola (QJMOTOR – GALFER – MSI) rounded out the top 10 ahead of eleventh place Holgado, who slips to P5 in the title race. Ayumu Sasaki (Momoven Idrofoglia RW Racing Team), Deniz Öncü (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team), Filip Salač, and the Czech’s OnlyFans American Racing Team Joe Roberts were the final points scorers in Jerez.
Can Agius become a Moto2 hat-trick hero when we land in Le Mans next time out? The #81 is in the form of his life as we head to France, with the 2026 title race looking rather tasty ahead of Round 5.
