05.10.2025

Rueda rules! 2025 Moto3™ world championship wrapped

2025 MotoGP news
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Jose Antonio Rueda owns the 2025 Moto3 world championship with four races still remaining this year and capped a campaign of outstanding results and consistency on the KTM RC4. The 20-year-old earned the #1 plate before the end of his third season in the category and gave Red Bull KTM their fourth title in the discipline that began in 2012.

Rueda claimed 1st position at Mandalika for the Indonesian Grand Prix, round 18 of 22, and confirmed his standing, supported by 9 victories and a total of 13 podiums appearances so far this campaign. The Spaniard has accumulated 58 Moto3 Grand Prix starts, all within the confines of the Red Bull KTM Ajo team. Jose Antonio joined the squad at the end of 2022 with high promise. At the end of that year he’d banked both the FIM JuniorGP title and the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup crown in the same period to comprehensively stamp his name at the top of the ‘feeder’ system to Grand Prix.
 
2023 was Rueda’s first full-time world championship and caught the eye with 12 top ten finishes and a maiden podium result at the Catalan Grand Prix. 2024 was disrupted by illness and injury but progress came with three more trophies and a breakthrough victory at the Aragon GP. In 2025 Rueda has been unstoppable in terms of his regularity and racecraft. His confidence and combination with the KTM RC4 has often made the difference in the closing laps of races. His results on Lombok island penned Rueda as the fourth Moto3 champion for the team since 2012, following Sandro Cortese, Brad Binder and Pedro Acosta.

 
Rueda will continue his Grand Prix career with the Red Bull KTM Ajo setup for 2026 but as a rookie in Moto2™ where he could eventually follow Miguel Oliveira, Brad Binder, Pedro Acosta and others to make the grade to MotoGP.
 
Jose Antonio Rueda: “Incredible. I've dreamed of this day since I was six years old. It is hard to find the correct words but I want to thank my parents for everything they have done for me and for teaching me the right way about life. Also, to everybody that has helped me along the way and from the beginning of this journey. I’m so happy right now.”

 
Niklas Ajo, Team Manager, Red Bull KTM Ajo: “What a year! It has been amazing to follow the progress of Jose Antonio throughout this season and of course during the last two years. It has been a long project for us since 2023 and the progress as a rider but especially as a person, has been incredible to see. I am so happy that we’ve been able to be on this trip together and, of course, continue in the future in Moto2, where I’m sure we will have even more success together. I want to say massive thanks as well to all our team for their continuous effort and professionalism through this 2025 season. Also, we can’t thank enough all our partners in this journey, especially KTM Management and Red Bull. It has been a pleasure to develop another great young talent together with them as a part of KTM GP Academy.”
 
Pit Beirer, KTM Motorsports Director: “Many congratulations to Jose Antonio, Niklas, Aki and the whole Red Bull KTM Ajo team for this latest championship in Moto3 where we also secured Constructors and Teams titles for a sweep this year. Jose Antonio has been one of our big hopes and this season he really exploded in a way that we all thought he could. He can now look to Moto2 and join other talented racers that have moved through the levels with KTM. This whole process is only possible thanks to the collaborations with valuable partners, like the Ajo family and their staff, but it also proves again that our boys in the factory know how to build a fast race bike: the results this year show that the KTM RC4 is the bike to have. A proud moment for us.”
 
PRESS CONTACT
 
Evangelia Sissis
PR Manager MotoGP
+43 676 665 2742
evangelia.sissis@ktm.com

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