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Bobingen's Kalex engineering has won eleven constructors titles in a row in the Moto2 World Championship since 2013 and, with Pedro Acosta, Kalex has now become the 12th world champion since Stefan Bradl in 2011. Kalex even remained undefeated during the 2016, 2020, and 2021 Moto2 seasons. In the past three years, the Boscoscuro riders have prevented an overall domination: Alonso López was victorious in Misano and Australia in 2022, and Fermín Aldeguer won five times after the summer break in 2023, including the last four races in a row. In 2024, Boscoscuro even won the Riders World Championship for the first time in the middle class with Ai Ogura.
In 2023, Kalex riders Tony Arbolino (Elf Marc VDS) and Pedro Acosta (Red Bull KTM Ajo) fought it out for the title, with the second half of the season that was clearly better for the Spanish rider. The 11th constructors crown in a row was never really at risk for the German manufacturer, with 15 season victories (7 for Acosta, 3 for Arbolino, 2 for Dixon, 1 for Lowes, 1 for Vietti, 1 for Chantra).
However, in 2024, Kalex's dominance was shaken by Boscoscuro, with its four riders, right from the start. By the summer, all four of the Italian manufacturer's riders had already won races in the first year with Pirelli standard tires (after Dunlop withdrew)! Boscoscuro's 2024 winners, and their number of wins, were: 3 for Aldeguer, 3 for Ogura, 2 for Garcia, 1 for Lozep. Last season, Instead, for Kalex, it was: 4 for Canet (vice world champion), 3 for Vietti, 2 for Dixon, 1 for Roberts, 1 for Gonzalez. Kalex clinched 11 wins in 2024 and managed to take the constructors title with 437 points, with Boscoscuro reaching 389.
In 2016, Kalex experienced its first Moto2 season without a GP defeat. But, in 2017, it faced a powerful new opponent: the KTM factory team. At the 2017 German GP, Kalex engineering came close to being defeated for the first time: Red Bull KTM rider Miguel Oliveira was defeated by Franco Morbidelli (Kalex) with just 0.066 seconds. Kalex had been unbeaten in the Moto2 World Championship since the Texas GP in April 2015.
Then their winning streak seemed to have been broken in Misano 2017 after 46 Kalex victories in a row. Dominique Aegerter won on the Adriatic track, in the rain, riding the Suter MMX2 ahead of Tom Lüthi (Kalex). But Aegerter was later disqualified for using an unauthorized oil additive, and Lüthi on his Kalex was declared Misano Moto2 winner. Kalex then triumphed in Aragón and Motegi, before Miguel Oliveira won the first of three Grand Prixs in a row for KTM at Phillip Island in 2017, breaking Kalex's winning streak, which had lasted since April 2015.
Kalex also dominated in 2018, again winning the majority of races, with 11 of 18 World Championship races. KTM won three times each with Oliveira and Binder, and Speed-up won once with Fabio Quartararo. The World Championship came down to a duel between Bagnaia (Kalex) and Oliveira (KTM). The Italian became world champion with a nine-point lead over the Portuguese. In 2019, Kalex celebrated 14 victories with World Champion Alex Márquez (5 wins), Baldassarri (3), Augusto Férnandez (3), Marini (2), and Lüthi (1). KTM took five victories with Brad Binder at Spielberg, Aragón, Phillip Island, Sepang, and Valencia. In total, KTM has won 14 Moto2 GP victories. Nevertheless, the Upper Austrians withdrew from the Moto2 class as a chassis manufacturer after the 2020 season.
A total of 187 Moto2 GP victories have already been reached by Kalex riders since 2010. While KTM grew into a strong competitor from 2017 to 2019, Suter Industries was no longer a major threat in 2017, with two teams and four riders (Aegerter and Mackenzie at Kiefer, Schrötter and Cortese at Intact).
Suter went under with Forward in 2018 and then withdrew from the World Championship altogether. The Tech3 team also withdrew its self-built motorcycle, switching to KTM in 2019 and the Moto3 class in 2020. Japanese manufacturer NTS pulled the plug after 2021, but they at least made a wildcard appearance with Héctor Garzó in Valencia in 2023. Forward Racing brought the name of the luxury brand, MV Agust,a back into the motorcycle World Championship in 2019, but they failed to win. Since this season, Forward has been competing with a vehicle that seems they assembled.
Many well-known German motorcycle manufacturers (DKW, Maico, Kreidler, MZ, Zündapp, Kramer, Simson, Münch, and so on) have long since closed up shop, but Kalex has been racing from victory to victory in the Moto2 World Championship for years.
No fewer than 22 of 27 regular World Championship riders relied on the German brand in the 2016 season. In 2018, things weren't much different: 19 of 30 regular riders had Kalex bikes; in 2019, they were 17 of 30; 22 of 30 in 2021; 24 of 28 in 2022; and 26 of 30 in 2023. Finally, in 2024, Kalex equipped 24 Moto2 World Championship riders. After 15 years of competing in the Moto2, Kalex has achieved a total of 187 Moto2 GP wins, plus 12 Riders and Constructor World Championship titles each.
In 2024, Boscoscuro not only supplied the in-house Speed Up team but also the new MT Helmets-MSi Moto2 team with Sergio Garcia and Ai Ogura. However, Kalex continued to have the net majority, with 24 of 30 bikes lined up. In 2025, Kalex will lose two more bikes to Boscoscuro , namely the ELF VDS team with Jake Dixon and Filip Salač.
