Japanese Grand Prix seventeenth round 2025 Motorcycle World Championship Moto2

· At the Japanese Grand Prix, the seventeenth round of the 2025 Motorcycle World Championship, the Moto2™ riders will again find in their allocation the standard Pirelli supersoft rear, namely the SCX, which in some of the last rounds had been replaced by its development version, in E0126 specification. This means that compared to the 2024 GP, in which the SC0 was the softest rear tyre available, this year Moto2™ will be able to take advantage of the extra grip offered by the supersoft. The standard SC0 will still be available as an alternative for the rear.

· Pirelli has decided to allocate the SCX for this grand prix after ascertaining in 2024, the year of its debut in Moto2™ and Moto3™, that the Japanese circuit of Motegi is not particularly demanding for the tyres in terms of wear and degradation and is therefore suitable for the softer solutions such as the supersoft SCX. In fact, last season all the riders chose to race with soft SC0 rear and soft SC1 front.

· In Moto3™, the standard allocation used since last year is confirmed. In 2024, practically all the riders in the race used the soft SC1 rear, while at the front 15 out of 26 riders chose to start on the medium SC2 and the rest of them opted for the soft SC1.

The supersoft rear will offer Moto2™ riders even more grip

“2024 was our debut year in the Moto2™ and Moto3™ Championships, therefore, in terms of allocation, we decided to make a conservative choice as we did not know some of the circuits we were going to race on and what the performance of our tyres would be with these machines. Now, almost two years later, we can say that we have collected enough information and data to allow us to make more accurate choices for each circuit, putting teams and riders in the best conditions to be able to exploit the potential of our range. At last year’s Japanese GP, we saw that the soft rear options were the most used in both classes. In particular, the Moto2™ riders raced with soft compounds on both the rear and the front, and the levels of wear as well as the degradation were very low. For this reason, this year we thought it appropriate to give them the opportunity to use the SCX which, using a softer compound than that of the SC0, can offer even higher levels of grip. As it is a supersoft compound, it is not adequate for all circuits, but Motegi has proven to be one of those suitable for exploiting it. It will be interesting to see if performance and lap times improve with this tyre.”