2025 Jerez Moto2 Test Day 3 Times: Aron Canet Tops Testing As Moto2 Preseason Ends

By David Emmett |

Aron Canet has taken nearly 1.1 seconds off his own Jerez lap record to end the final Moto2 test of the 2025 preseason on top of the timesheets. Canet improved on Manu Gonzalez' time from Wednesday by over two tenths, as the Moto2 riders upped the pace. Barry Baltus made it a Fantic Racing 1-2, just four thousandths of a second shy of his teammate's best time, and four hundreths faster than Manu Gonzalez on the Dynavolt IntactGP Kalex. 

Deniz Öncü was fourth fastest on the Red Bull KTM Ajo bike, and nearly three tenths quicker than Diogo Moreira on the Italtrans Kalex. Zonta van den Goorbergh has had a very strong test, putting the RW Racing bike into sixth.

Kalex have pretty much dominated the Jerez test, with Jake Dixon the first Boscoscuro bike in ninth. The Marc VDS Racing rider was six tenths off the pace of Canet.

Canet, Baltus, and Gonzalez have dominated for most of the test, consistently at the top of the timesheets, while Öncü, Van den Goorbergh and Albert Arenas have been very close throughout.

As a testament to how fast development has gone, both Canet and Baltus were fast enough on the Pirelli-shod, Triumph 765 powered Kalex bikes to have qualified on the second row for the 2010 MotoGP race, just behind Casey Stoner on the Ducati Desmosedici GP10, and ahead of Valentino Rossi on the Yamaha M1, both 800cc bikes using Bridgestone MotoGP 16.5-inch tires.

Overall times from all three days:

Pos No Rider Bike Time Diff Prev
1 44 Aron Canet KALEX 1:39.552    
2 7 Barry Baltus KALEX 1:39.556 0.004 0.004
3 18 Manuel Gonzalez KALEX 1:39.597 0.045 0.041
4 53 Deniz Öncü KALEX 1:39.693 0.141 0.096
5 10 Diogo Moreira KALEX 1:39.981 0.429 0.288
6 84 Zonta vd Goorbergh KALEX 1:40.112 0.560 0.131
7 99 Adrian Huertas KALEX 1:40.156 0.604 0.044
8 75 Albert Arenas KALEX 1:40.159 0.607 0.003
9 96 Jake Dixon BOSCOSCURO 1:40.179 0.627 0.020
10 81 Senna Agius KALEX 1:40.193 0.641 0.014
11 13 Celestino Vietti BOSCOSCURO 1:40.246 0.694 0.053
12 24 Marcos Ramirez KALEX 1:40.263 0.711 0.017
13 28 Izan Guevara BOSCOSCURO 1:40.472 0.920 0.209
14 15 Darryn Binder KALEX 1:40.504 0.952 0.032
15 71 Ayumu Sasaki KALEX 1:40.521 0.969 0.017
16 9 Jorge Navarro FORWARD 1:40.526 0.974 0.005
17 16 Joe Roberts KALEX 1:40.548 0.996 0.022
18 11 Alex Escrig FORWARD 1:40.585 1.033 0.037
19 27 Daniel Holgado KALEX 1:40.695 1.143 0.110
20 80 David Alonso KALEX 1:40.697 1.145 0.002
21 95 Collin Veijer KALEX 1:40.741 1.189 0.044
22 4 Ivan Ortola BOSCOSCURO 1:40.744 1.192 0.003
23 12 Filip Salac BOSCOSCURO 1:40.746 1.194 0.002
24 14 Tony Arbolino BOSCOSCURO 1:40.995 1.443 0.249
25 92 Yuki Kunii KALEX 1:41.012 1.460 0.017
26 64 Mario Suryo Aji KALEX 1:41.172 1.620 0.160
27 3 Sergio Garcia BOSCOSCURO 1:41.252 1.700 0.080

Day 3 Moto2 times:

Pos No Rider Bike Time Diff Prev
1 44 Aron Canet KALEX 1:39.552    
2 7 Barry Baltus KALEX 1:39.556 0.004 0.004
3 18 Manuel Gonzalez KALEX 1:39.597 0.045 0.041
4 53 Deniz Öncü KALEX 1:39.693 0.141 0.096
5 10 Diogo Moreira KALEX 1:39.981 0.429 0.288
6 84 Zonta vd Goorbergh KALEX 1:40.112 0.560 0.131
7 99 Adrian Huertas KALEX 1:40.156 0.604 0.044
8 96 Jake Dixon BOSCOSCURO 1:40.179 0.627 0.023
9 81 Senna Agius KALEX 1:40.193 0.641 0.014
10 13 Celestino Vietti BOSCOSCURO 1:40.246 0.694 0.053
11 24 Marcos Ramirez KALEX 1:40.263 0.711 0.017
12 28 Izan Guevara BOSCOSCURO 1:40.472 0.920 0.209
13 75 Albert Arenas KALEX 1:40.504 0.952 0.032
14 15 Darryn Binder KALEX 1:40.504 0.952 0.000
15 71 Ayumu Sasaki KALEX 1:40.521 0.969 0.017
16 9 Jorge Navarro FORWARD 1:40.526 0.974 0.005
17 16 Joe Roberts KALEX 1:40.548 0.996 0.022
18 11 Alex Escrig FORWARD 1:40.585 1.033 0.037
19 27 Daniel Holgado KALEX 1:40.695 1.143 0.110
20 80 David Alonso KALEX 1:40.697 1.145 0.002
21 95 Collin Veijer KALEX 1:40.741 1.189 0.044
22 4 Ivan Ortola BOSCOSCURO 1:40.744 1.192 0.003
23 12 Filip Salac BOSCOSCURO 1:40.746 1.194 0.002
24 14 Tony Arbolino BOSCOSCURO 1:40.998 1.446 0.252
25 92 Yuki Kunii KALEX 1:41.012 1.460 0.014
26 3 Sergio Garcia BOSCOSCURO 1:41.252 1.700 0.240
2025
Moto2
Jerez, Spain
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Comments

Yesterday I found a decent take elsewhere: given that Lopez is injured, Garcia is struggling so much and all their other riders are new to the machine, perhaps we haven't really seen what the new Boscoscuro can do.

My money for the title definitely is on Canet or Gonzalez. Looking at the sophomores, between Moreira, Agius and Oncu I'd pick the latter mostly due to the team he's in; only Bastianini has really made Italtrans work and Intact has never fought for a title.

Huertas has been super impressive but I'd let some races go by before handing him rookie of the year; the Moto3 rookies were always going to be down the order in this test with how tricky the transition up to Moto2 has been since the start of the Triumph era.

Interested to see what Kunii can do, wasn't he supposed to be a big prospect? What has he been up to in the last couple years anyway?