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Results and summary of the Moto2 race at Buriram:

Results and summary of qualifying for the Moto2 class at Buriram:

The intermediate class battled through a predictably hot start to Saturday at Buriram to work on their race preparation, but two men still shined at the top of the timesheets. After Aron Canet held the spotlight for much of proceedings, Deniz Öncü robbed him in the final handful of minutes to take top spot by five hundredths of a second ahead of the Spaniard. Zonta Van Den Goorbergh joined them in the top three, a couple tenths off the lead and narrowly ahead of a rather surprising Mario Aji.

Results:

Results:

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. 

Manu Gonzalez is the fastest of the Moto2 class on the second day of the final preseason test at Jerez. The Dynavolt IntactGP rider became the first Moto2 rider ever to lap the track inside the 1'39s, joined at the end of the day by Aron Canet on the Fantic Kalex. Gonzalez' best lap matched the MotoGP race record from 2010 set by Dani Pedrosa on the Honda RC212V.

Diogo Moreira has started the final test for the Moto2 class at the head of the pile, the Italtrans Racing rider two tenths quicker than Fantic Racing's Aron Canet. Canet's Fantic teammate Barry Baltus is third quickest, ahead of Manu Gonzalez on the IntactGP Kalex and Zonta van den Goorbergh on the RW Racing Kalex.

The Moto2 class sees an important change this year, with the class switching from 3.75 to 3.5-inch front rims, to bring Pirelli's front tire offering in line with their WorldSBK tires. The change should make the bikes a little easier to turn. 

The second day of the Portimão Moto2 test saw lap records smashed. Aron Canet took three tenths off Manu Gonzalez' qualifying record set at the race in March last year. The Fantic Racing rider finished just ahead of Marc VDS' Jake Dixon, and IntactGP's Manu Gonzalez, who was himself two tenths under his own record.

Diogo Moreira was fourth quickest on the other Fantic Racing Kales, ahead of Barry Baltus and Zonta van den Goorbergh. Everyone was much quicker on the second day of the test.