Ai Ogura moves up to MotoGP in 2025 as t🐻he reigning 🐲Moto2 world champion, riding for Trackhouse Aprilia.

Ai Ogura - Route to MotoGP

Ogura spent three years in Moto3 with Honda Team Asia, where he took eight podiums but missed out on a race victo𓆉ry.

Promoted to Moto2 by the Honda-backed team in 202𝐆1, Ogura quickly ad🌸apted to the larger machinery and celebrated a podium in Austria.

The Japanese star's rapid rise saw him fight for the🧸 title with three race wins in 2022, only to lose ouღt to Augusto Fernandez.

Tipped as the 2🐲023 favourite, Ogura's final year with Honda Team Asia was wrecked by a wrist injury in pre-season testing.

Ogura's switch away from Honda Team Asia and Kalex had raised eyebo🥃ws but his decision to join the new MT Helmets-MSI (ex-Pons) squad on a Boscoscuro chassis for the first year of Piꦰrelli tyres proved inspired.

Although it🍃 took Ogura until round four to stand on the podium, and he only won three 🔥races, his eight podiums were more than enough to wrap up the title early in a season where all riders struggled for consistency.

Ogura❀ also proved that leaving Honda hadn't harmed his MotoGP prospects when he was chosen by Trackhouse Aprilia team director and renowned talent spotter Davide Brivio to join the satellite RS-GP team for 2025.