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Valentin Debise, having swapped his Yamaha for a Ducati, opens the 2025 season with the top spot in the first session of the year with Tom Booth-Amos less than a tenth of a second off his pace on a Triumph Street Triple. Bo Bendsneyder kept up the variety of machinery putting his MV Agusta in third place. Marcel Schroetter was fourth quickest on his Ducati with a brace of new Yamaha R9s rounding out the top six, with Lucas Mahias and Can Oncu aboard. 

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. 

Jose Antonio Rueda has ended the preseason test for the Moto3 class at the head of the timesheets, and nearly four tenths under David Alonso's Moto3 record set during P1 on the race weekend at Jerez in 2024. 

The Red Bull KTM Ajo rider was not the only one to dive under the record: LEVELUP-MTA's Joel Kelso, Dynavolt IntactGP's David Muñoz, and Leopard Racing's Adrian Fernandez, the only rider on a Honda to dip under the old record. MT Helmets rider Angel Piqueras missed out by a sliver, being two thousandths of a second slower than Alonso's 2024 record.

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.

David Muñoz has ended the second day of the official preseason test for the Moto3 class on top of the pile. The Dynavolt IntactGP rider was a tenth of a second under David Alonso's outright lap record, and a tenth faster than MT Helmet's Angel Piqueras and Red Bull KTM Ajo rider Jose Antonio Rueda.

After blasting their way to the top on the first day of Moto3 testing, rookies Max Quiles and Alvaro Carpe find themselves a little further down the order, in ninth and seventh respectively. Still a very strong start for the two Spaniards.

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. 

Angel Piqueras leads the first day of the Moto3 test at Jerez, the MT Helmets rider three quarter of a second off David Alonso's outright lap record at the Jerez circuit. Rookie Max Quiles is second fastest, ahead of fellow Red Bull Rookie Alvaro Carpe. Jose Antonio Rueda is fourth fastest, while Adrian Fernandez is the first of the Honda riders. 

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