The 2015 FIM Moto2 World Championship was a part of the 67th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Marc VDS Racing Team rider Tito Rabat started the season as the defending riders' champion, having won his first championship title in 2014.
Rabat had been trailing by 78 points going to the Japanese Grand Prix. However, he had to withdraw from the event with a fractured left radius. Therefore, Johann Zarco became World Champion – the ninth different world champion in the intermediate class in as many years.[1] Ajo Motorsport rider Zarco won eight races during the season – to become the most successful French rider in Grand Prix racing[2] – and with a tally of 352 points,[3] set a record points total for the intermediate class; surpassing Rabat's 346 from 2014. With Rabat missing three races due to injury, rookie Álex Rins (Pons Racing) moved ahead in the standings, and despite Rabat winning the final race in Valencia, Rins finished second to seal the runner-up spot by three points.[3] Rins won two races at Indianapolis,[4] and Phillip Island,[5] while Rabat added his Valencia success to wins at Mugello and Motorland Aragón.[6][7]
On one of the few non-Kalex motorcycles on the grid, Sam Lowes finished fourth in the championship for Speed Up, taking a race win at Circuit of the Americas,[8] holding off Derendinger Racing Interwetten's Thomas Lüthi, who won at Le Mans.[9] The season's only other race winners were Jonas Folger, who won at Losail and Jerez for the AGR Team,[10][11] and Xavier Siméon, who took his first win for Gresini Racing at the Sachsenring.[12] Kalex comfortably won the manufacturers' championship; they won 17 of the season's 18 races, with only Lowes' success at Circuit of the Americas stopping a clean sweep of victories. Speed Up finished second in the championship, with 209 points to Kalex's 445.
The 2015 season was the last year that Eni was the sole fuel supplier for Moto2, as Total became the championship's fuel supplier in 2016.
- ^ "Motegi Moto2: Tito Rabat withdraws, Johann Zarco wins championship". Autosport. Haymarket Publications. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- ^ "Pedrosa gagne une course, Rossi des points et Zarco un titre" [Pedrosa wins the race, points to Rossi and Zarco the title]. Libération (in French). SARL Libération. Agence France-Presse. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
A cette occasion, avec huit succès dans toute sa carrière, il efface des tablettes de la vitesse française ses glorieux aînés, Christian Sarron, Olivier Jacque et Arnaud Vincent, tous trois champions du monde également dans les années 80 et 2000. [On this occasion, with eight wins in his career, he moves ahead of the previous tallies of the French former riders, Christian Sarron, Olivier Jacque and Arnaud Vincent, all three world champions between 1980 and 2000.]
- ^ a b "Rabat bows out of Moto2 with victory". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 8 November 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ "Rins takes sensational Moto2 victory". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 9 August 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ "Remarkable Rins takes Moto2 victory at Phillip Island". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 18 October 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ "First Moto2 victory of the season for Rabat in Mugello". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 31 May 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ "Rabat wins after excellent duel with Rins". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 27 September 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ "Sam Lowes impresses MotoGP bosses with maiden Moto2 win in America". Lincolnshire Echo. Local World. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ "Luthi triumphant in Moto2". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 17 May 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ Patterson, Simon (29 March 2015). "Folger wins war of attrition". Motor Cycle News. Bauer Media Group. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ English, Steve (3 May 2015). "Folger wins at Jerez and regains title lead". Motor Cycle News. Bauer Media Group. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ "Simeón takes first ever Moto2 win". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 12 July 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.