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Italian Moto2 motorcycle manufacturer Luca Boscoscuro is expected to win the Riders World Championship in the middle class for the first time this season with the 145 hp 765 cc three-cylinder Triumph. But Kalex has taken the lead again in the Constructors World Championship, even if Boscoscuro still led with 237 to 222 points after the Austrian GP.
The supremacy of the Kalex German brand, engineered by Klaus Hirsekorn and Alex Baumgärtel (the brand name, KALEX, is formed by K and ALEX, from their first names), has long since taken on unique proportions. Founded by the two former automotive engineers for the first 2010 Moto2, the company has already won the Constructors World Championship in the Moto2 class 12 times in a row since 2013.
Kalex has, therefore, quietly achieved a superiority that has been unparalleled in the Motorcycle World Championship since 1949.
Incidentally, Ducati has also won the MotoGP World Championship five times in a row.
But Boscoscuro could end the Kalex winning streak in 2024, since Kalex equips two dozen riders, while Boscoscuro has only four! And the two best results per brand are counted for each Grand Prix. Kalex has also won 8 out of 16 races in 2024 with Canet (2), Roberts (1), Vietti (2), Dixon (2), and Gonzalez (1).
The 2024 Moto2 Constructors Championship standings, after the Japan GP, are: Kalex, 342 points; Boscoscuro, 328; Forward, 16.
Instead, the situation in the Riders World Championship at the moment is: Ai Ogura (Boscoscuro), 228 points; Sergio Garcia (Boscoscuro), 168; Alonso Lopez (Boscoscuro), 163; Arón Canet (Kalex), 256; Roberts (Kalex), 153; Gonzalez (Kalex), 153; Fermin Aldeguer (Boscoscuro), 150; Celestino Vietti (Kalex), 140; Jake Dixon (Kalex), 133; Tony Arbolino (Kalex), 127.
52-year-old Speed Up team owner Luca Boscoscuro, European 250cc champion in 1995, had his best GP year as a rider in 1996 when he finished 10th in the World Championship and later became team manager for Gilera 250 (with World Champion Marco Simoncelli in 2008). After Gilera and Aprilia withdrew from the lower GP categories, Luca immediately appeared as a new manufacturer in 2010 in the first Moto2 season with the his own new Speed Up brand.
At the time, "Bosco" was said to have used his excellent connections with engineers in the Piaggio Group and, therefore, had design plans for the Moto2 Aprilia: a project that was unexpectedly halted in November 2009. The Italian brand suddenly no longer wanted to race with the Honda CBR600RR engine. but Boscoscuro describes this as a tall tale: “That's nonsense.”
The inventive motorcycle manufacturer assures GPone.com that he had the first Moto2 bike for 2010 built by FTR in England, according to his ideas, due to a lack of time. Then, out of necessity, he founded the Speed Up brand.
A year later, a dispute arose with FTR, which claimed that Speed Up had used sever parts of the FTR design project for Speed Up in the 2011 bike, and that's the reason why Boscoscuro competed under the FTR brand name in his second Moto2 year.
There was no sign of Speed Up in the 2011 Moto2 season, due to the accusations of plagiarism, which the head of Speed Up denied. But, to be on the safe side, he still used the bikes under the FTR brand name to avoid a lengthy legal dispute. Luca's satisfaction: FTR didn't survive for long. The British company has long since disappeared from the scene.
Incidentally, the Speed Up team has been changing its main sponsors during the season for years, with “one-event sponsors” and usually switching between six different companies and designs. “That's not a handicap. For me, that's not a bad solution,” Boscoscuro pointed out. “We usually have up to six sponsors per season who alternate. If I only have one main sponsor, I lose one-hundred percent if it pulls out. With the current system, if a company pulls out, I only lose fifteen or twenty percent of the income. We do need a lot of different clothing for the team, but that doesn't matter, financially. It's a nice and pleasant change.”
Before the 2021 season, Boscoscuro decided to use the Moto2 racing bikes under his last name for the future. Alonso Lopez then won in Misano and Phillip Island in 2022, while Fermin Aldeguer won in Silverstone 2022, dominating the last four races in 2023 and finishing third in the Moto2 World Championship.
The winning streak continued in 2024. After two years (the Aspar Martinez GASGAS team switched from Boscoscuro to Kalex in 2022), Boscoscuro found a client team again, namely, the MTS Helmets MSi team, headed by Teo Martin, Sito Pons' successor.
And the two MTS Helmets MSi riders from the new client team, Ai Ogura und Sergio Garcia, are leading the championship standings.
Speed Up track record
8 Moto2 GP wins
2010
Mugello (Iannone)
Assen (Iannone)
Aragón (Iannone
2012
Catalunya (Iannone)
Mugello (Iannone)
2014
Assen (West)
2015
Austin (Sam Lowes)
2018
Catalunya (Quartararo)
Boscoscuro track record
14 Moto2 GP wins
2022
Misano and Phillip Island (Lopez)
2023
Silverstone, Buriram, Sepang, Doha, Valencia (Aldeguer)
2024
Doha (by Lopez), Texas and Le Mans (by Garcia), Jerez and Sachsenring (by Aldeguer), Catalunya, Assen and San Marino (by Ogura)
Speed up in Constructors Championship
2010
3rd place with 322 points
2012
3rd place with 194 points
2013
3rd place with 143 points
2014
4th place with 121 points
2015
2nd place with 209 points
2016
2nd place with 136 points
2017
4th place with 117 points
2018
3rd place with 142 points
2019
3rd place with 259 points
2020
2nd place with 118 points
Boscoscuro in Constructors Championship
2021
2nd place with 199 points
2022
2nd place with 200,5 points
2023
2nd place with 286 points
2024
2nd place with 328 points
Constructors Championship battles in Moto2
2010: 1st Suter 322 - 2nd Moriwaki 309
2011: 1st Suter 384 - 2nd Kalex 281
2012: 1st Suter 382 - 2nd Kalex 320
2013: 1st Kalex 392 - 2nd Suter 297
2014: 1st Kalex 430 - 2nd Suter 284
2015: 1st Kalex 445 - 2nd Speed Up 209
2016: 1st Kalex 450 - 2nd Speed Up 136
2017: 1st Kalex 427 - 2nd KTM 266
2018: 1st Kalex 407 - 2nd KTM 345
2019: 1st Kalex 442 - 2nd KTM 281
2020: 1st Kalex 375 - 2nd Speed Up 118
2021: 1st Kalex 450 - 2nd Boscoscuro 199
2022: 1st Kalex 477.5 - Boscoscuro 200.5
2023: 1st Kalex 462,5 - 2nd Boscoscuro 286
2024: 1st Kalex 342 - 2nd Boscoscuro 328
All Riders World Champions in Moto2
2010: Toni Elias, Moriwaki
2011: Stefan Bradl, Kalex
2012: Marc Márquez, Suter
2013: Pol Espargaró, Kalex
2014: Tito Rabat, Kalex
2015: Johann Zarco, Kalex
2016: Johann Zarco, Kalex
2017: Franco Morbidelli, Kalex
2018: Pecco Bagnaia, Kalex
2019: Alex Márquez, Kalex
2020: Enea Bastianini, Kalex
2021: Remy Gardner, Kalex
2022: Augusto Fernández, Kalex
2023: Pedro Acosta, Kalex
