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One-time grand prix world champion Albert Arenas will leave MotoGP paddock at the end of 2025
Former Moto3 world champion Albert Arenas has announced that he will be ending his journey in the MotoGP World Championship after the conclusion of the 2025 season. In his full-time grand prix debut in 2016, the 28-year-old Spanish rider finished runner-up in the Junior Moto3 World Championship the previous year. Arenas achieved his first grand prix victory at Le Mans in 2018 while riding for the Aspar squad on a KTM machine. Throughout his career, he secured a total of three wins in Moto3, including one in Thailand in 2019. Despite winning the Moto3 world title in 2020, his transition to Moto2 in the following season resulted in only two podium finishes over five years. Arenas expressed gratitude to his supporters and fans as he announced that the current season will be his last in the grand prix paddock, stating that it is the end of a chapter and the beginning of a new book for him. There have been speculations about him moving to the World Superbike paddock with the Motocorsa team, as confirmed by team boss Lorenzo Mauri, who is considering options for a strong rider in the upcoming season.
