Because Pierer Mobility AG became insolvent in November 2024 and had to implement cost-cutting measures, the Austrian company withdrew from the Moto3 World Championship 2025 with its GASGAS and Husqvarna brands. Only Aspar Martinez's team, financed by the Chinese motorcycle manufacturer and former Pierer shareholder, CFMOTO, continued with the Austrian RC4 machinery. KTM secured 20 of the 22 possible victories, while Honda only managed two.
In 2023 and 2024, Pierer Mobility AG lined up three more manufacturers alongside KTM in the Moto3 World Championship: GASGAS, Husqvarna, and CFMOTO. In 2023, the Moto3 bikes from Upper Austria racked up 15 out of 20 victories and, in 2024, they even managed 19 out of 20.
The year for GASGAS was 2022. The new world champion, Izan Guevara, along with runner-up Sergio Garcia, won half of the 20 Grand Prix races in 2022 on GASGAS bikes. For the first time ever in Moto3 history, GASGAS achieved the most wins in a single season. Honda, the closest competitor in 2022, secured five victories. Four of these were contributed by Dennis Foggia, who now occupies a fifth place on the all-time Moto3 list with a total of ten GP wins. Romano Fenati is second.
In 2021, thanks to GASGAS, four different manufacturers won the minor class of the Motorcycle World Championship for the first time since 2016. In 2020, thanks to Husqvarna, there were at least three manufacturers.
In the years prior, KTM and Honda were locked in a duel, with the Austrian manufacturer coming out on top in both 2020 and 2021. From 2017 to 2019, however, the Japanese manufacturer consistently prevailed.
Honda dominated in 2017, securing 17 of 18 victories and 48 of 54 podium finishes. The field was more balanced in 2018, with KTM (and Marco Bezzecchi) fighting for the title, as they had in 2016. The Austrian manufacturer won seven of the eighteen races. In 2019, the duel clearly went to Honda again, with fourteen wins to five.
In 2020, the tables turned: Albert Arenas (Aspar Team) secured the fourth Moto3 title for the Austrian manufacturer KTM. Eight of the only fifteen Grand Prix races held due to the pandemic, went to KTM, Arenas won three, Raul Fernández and Celestino Vietti twice each, and Darryn Binder once. The opening victory for Arenas in Qatar was also KTM's 100th Grand Prix win across all classes.
When Viñales disappeared from Sepang
In the Moto3 World Championship, which has been held since 2012 and features 250cc single-cylinder four-stroke bikes with around 60 hp, KTM has won the Constructors Championship in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2021, 2023, and 2025, while Honda triumphed in the same championship in 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. In 2022, this title went to GASGAS.
In the Riders World Championship, KTM won in 2012 with Sandro Cortese and with Maverick Viñales in 2013. The Spanish rider made headlines on Friday morning of the 2013 Sepang GP when, despite being in perfect health, he skipped practice and flew home because Honda hadn't supplied him with any new upgraded parts all season, while KTM continued tireless development for all top riders. Viñales had already won five races with the FTR-Honda by then, and his return home definitively ruined his title chances. Sandro Cortese won in Sepang and Phillip Island, therefore, becoming World Champion, even though Viñales returned to the championship in Australia under pressure from Dorna CEO Ezpeleta.
In the 2013 overall standings, four KTM riders – Viñales, Rins, Salom, and Alex Márquez – finished at the top. Jack Miller was the best Honda rider, finishing in seventh place. After that, Honda secured two Riders World Championship titles with Alex Márquez and Danny Kent, before Brad Binder claimed the third riders title for KTM in 2016. From 2017 to 2019, Joan Mir, Jorge Martin, and Lorenzo Della Porta triumphed again on Hondas.
In 2020 and 2021, Arenas and Pedro Acosta won the title for KTM, while Izan Guevara became the first champion on a GASGAS in 2022. In the 2023 season, Jaume Masià brought the crown back to Honda.
KTM scored the most constructors championship points in 2013 with 425 points, compared to 346 in 2012. Honda set a record in 2017 with 445 points, which remained unmatched even in 2019 (439). In 2014, both manufacturers finished with 384 points, but KTM had ten victories compared to Honda's eight. In 2025, KTM achieved a record in the Constructors World Championship (in the first-ever 22-race series): 540 points, while Honda managed only 308.
KTM's winning streak in the 2013 season was unparalleled, as it won all 17 World Championship races and occupied the top four positions in the championship standings with Viñales, Rins, Luis Salom, and Alex Márquez.
KTM's winning streak after the 2012 Japanese Grand Prix (where Danny Kent won on a KTM) was equally impressive, continuing until the 2014 Barcelona Grand Prix, where Alex Márquez secured Honda's first Moto3 victory with the new NSF 250RW. During this period, KTM factory riders achieved 27 consecutive wins, a record in Grand Prix history, which began in 1949. No other manufacturer had previously achieved so many consecutive victories in any class, however, this record has since been broken by Kalex in Moto2.
KTM's winning streak continued to be impressive. Cortese amassed 325 points to win the title in 2012 (Salom finished second with 214), Viñales managed 323 points in 2013 (Rins finished second with 311), Alex Márquez became world champion in 2014 with 278 points, while Miller scored 276. And in 2015, Miguel Oliveira (KTM) lost to Kent by a score of 254 to 260.
Incidentally, Red Bull KTM factory rider Oliveira scored 140 out of a possible 150 points in the last six races of 2015, while World Champion Kent on the Leopard-Honda only managed 36.
It's worth noting that, in the early years of Moto3, smaller manufacturers, like FTR-Honda, Suter-Honda, Mahindra, Peugeot, and Ioda-Emir, competed in the 250cc four-stroke single-cylinder class. Giampiero Sacchi, former racing manager of the Piaggio Group and later owner of the IodaRacing team, had his own Moto3 GP bike built in Italy and named it Emir. "Once, when I was standing at a gas station thinking about all the bills that needed to be paid for this project, I said to myself, ‘I need to find a sheikh’. That's why I named the motorcycle 'Emir'," Sacchi explained.
Most Moto3 bikes were initially equipped with Honda RS250R engines, which were readily available at Suter-Honda, TSR Honda, FGR-Honda, Oral/Suter Honda, and KRP Honda. This was because the original RS250R chassis was not suitable for the World Championship.
After KTM's two World Championship titles in 2012 and 2013, Honda resorted to a ruse. Although KTM and Honda were supposed to each supply half of the teams, the Japanese manufacturer alienated many Honda teams by not making any commitments for 2014 until November. It then built only six genuine factory prototypes designated RS250RW for the Estrella Galicia 0,0, SaxoPrint RTG, and Ongetta Air Asia teams. For the RS250RW, the Japanese copied KTM's bore/stroke ratio and Akrapovic's dual exhaust system managed by KTM. For 2014, KTM essentially had to build a limited-edition RC4 production racer for 18 riders (including those from Husqvarna and Kalex-KTM) and, therefore, had to complete its development before Christmas.
The Indian Mahindra Group also participated in the Moto3 World Championship, having its 250cc machine built by Suter Racing Technology in Switzerland in 2013. The Mahinda Racing headquarters was later subsequently moved to Italy. An outstanding Pecco Bagnaia secured two surprising Mahindra GP victories in Assen and Sepang in 2016. Mahindra also temporarily lined up the bike under its secondary brand, Peugeot. Mahindra and Peugeot withdrew from the World Championship after the 2017 season due to a lack of wins.
In 2016, Red Bull KTM Ajo rider Brad Binder secured the title with 319 points, following Honda's two triumphs, with Alex Márquez and Danny Kent in 2014 and 2015.
In 2017, Honda's dominance became overwhelming. KTM riders only managed five podium finishes that year: Andrea Migno from the Sky VR46 team won in Mugello, Juanfran Guevara came in third place at the same event, Marcos Ramirez after finishing third at the Sachsenring, followed by Philipp Öttl in second place at Spielberg, and Ramirez again in second place at Valencia. In Motegi, Bezzecchi secured Mahindra's only podium finish of the 2017 season, taking third place.
TM Racing participated in 2018 and 2019 with a wildcard entry, only competing in their home Grand Prix in Italy, but they never managed to gain entry into the championship.
After 2027, fans will have to do without the fierce rivalries between Honda and KTM, since single-brand motorcycles based on the 689cc twin-cylinder Yamaha R7 will be used for the first time.
All Moto3 World Champions
2012: Sandro Cortese (KTM)
2013: Maverick Viñales (KTM)
2014: Alex Márquez (Honda)
2015: Danny Kent (Honda)
2016: Brad Binder (KTM)
2017: Joan Mir (Honda)
2018: Jorge Martin (Honda)
2019: Lorenzo Dalla Porta (Honda)
2020: Albert Arenas (KTM)
2021: Pedro Acosta (KTM)
2022: Ivan Guevara (GASGAS)
2023: Jaume Masià (Honda)
2024: David Alonso (CFMOTO)
2025: José Antonio Rueda (KTM)
2012 Moto3 GP winners
Maverick Viñales, FTR-Honda (5)
Sandro Cortese, KTM (5)
Luis Salom, Kalex-KTM (2)
Danny Kent, KTM (2)
Louis Rossi, FTR-Honda (1)
Jonas Folger, Kalex-KTM (1)
Romano Fenati, FTR-Honda (1)
2012 Constructors winners
FTR-Honda (7)
KTM (7)
Kalex-KTM (3)
2013 Moto3 GP winners
Luis Salom, KTM (7)
Alex Rins, KTM (6)
Maverick Viñales, KTM (3)
Alex Márquez, KTM (1)
2103 Constructors winner
KTM (17)
2104 Moto3 GP winners
Jack Miller, KTM (6)
Romano Fenati, KTM (4)
Alex Márquez, Honda (3)
Efren Vazquez, Honda (2)
Alex Rins, Honda (2)
Alexis Masbou, Honda (1)
2014 Constructors winners
KTM (10)
Honda (8)
2105 Moto3 GP winners
Danny Kent, Honda (6)
Miguel Oliveira, KTM (6)
Niccolò Antonelli, Honda (2)
Enea Bastianini, Honda (1)
Romano Fenati, KTM (1)
Alexis Masbou, Honda (1)
Livio Loi, Honda (1)
2015 Constructors winners
Honda (11)
KTM (7)
2106 Moto3 GP winners
Brad Binder, KTM (7)
Joan Mir, KTM (1)
Romano Fenati, KTM (1)
Jorge Navarro, Honda (2)
Niccolò Antonelli, Honda (1)
Enea Bastianini, Honda (1)
Francesco Bagnaia, Mahindra (2)
John McPhee, Peugeot (1)
Khairul Idham Pawi, Honda (2)
2016 Constructors winners
Honda (6)
KTM (9)
Mahindra (2)
Peugeot (1)
2107 Moto3 GP winners
Joan Mir, Honda (10)
Aron Canet, Honda (3)
Romano Fenati, Honda (3)
Andrea Migno, KTM (1)
Jorge Martin, Honda (1)
2017 Constructors winners
Honda (17)
KTM (1)
2018 Moto3 GP winners
Jorge Martin, Honda (7)
Marco Bezzeccchi, KTM (3)
Alberto Arenas, KTM (2)
Fabio Di Giannantonio, Honda (2)
Enea Bastianini, Honda (1)
Lorenzo Dalla Porta, Honda (1)
Philipp Öttl, KTM (1)
Can Öncü, KTM (1)
2018 Constructors winners
Honda (11)
KTM (7)
2019 Moto3 GP winners
Kaito Toba, Honda (1)
Jaume Masià, KTM (1)
Aron Canet, KTM (3)
Niccolò Antonelli, Honda (1)
John McPhee, Honda (1)
Tony Arbolino, Honda (2)
Marcos Ramirez, Honda (2)
Lorenzo Dalla Porta, Honda (4)
Romano Fenati, Honda (1)
Tatsuki Suzuki, Honda (1)
Albert Arenas, KTM (1)
Sergio Garcia, Honda (1)
2019 Constructors winners
Honda (14)
KTM (5)
2020 Moto3 GP winners
Albert Arenas, KTM (3)
Tatsuki Suzuki, Honda (1)
Dennis Foggia, Honda (1)
Celestino Vietti, KTM (2)
John McPhee, Honda (1)
Romano Fenati, Husqvarna (1)
Darryn Binder, KTM (1)
Jaume Masià, Honda (2)
Raúl Fernández, KTM (2)
Tony Arbolino, Honda (1)
2020 Constructors winners
KTM (8)
Honda (6)
Husqvarna (1)
2021 Moto3 GP winners
Pedro Acosta, KTM (6)
Dennis Foggia, Honda (5)
Sergio Garcia, GASGAS (3)
Jaume Masia, KTM (1)
Romano Fenati, Husqvarna (1)
Izan Guevara, GASGAS (1)
Xavier Artigas, Honda (1)
2021 Constructors winners
KTM (7)
Honda (6)
GASGAS (4)
Husqvarna (1)
2022 Moto3 GP winners
Izan Guevara, GASGAS (7)
Dennis Foggia, Honda (4)
Sergio Garcia, GASGAS (3)
Jaume Masià, KTM (2)
Ayumu Sasaki, Husqvarna (2)
Andrea Migno, Honda (1)
John McPhee, Husqvarna (1)
2022 Constructors winners
GASGAS (10)
Honda (5)
Husqvarna (3)
KTM (2)
2023 Moto3 GP winners
Jaume Masià, Honda (4)
David Alonso, GASGAS (4)
Daniel Holgado, KTM (3)
Deniz Öncü, KTM (3)
Ivan Ortolá, KTM (2)
Tatsuki Suzuki, Honda (1)
Diogo Moreira, KTM (1)
Collin Veijer, Husqvarna (1)
Ayumu Sasaki, Husqvarna (1)
2023 Constructors winners
KTM (9)
Honda (5)
GASGAS (4)
Husqvarna (2)
2024 Moto3 GP winners
David Alonso 14
Daniel Holgado 1
Collin Veijer 1
Ivan Ortolá 2
José Antonio Rueda 1
Angel Piqueras 1
2024 Constructors winners
CFMOTO 14
KTM 3
Husqvarna 1
Honda 1
GASGAS 1
2025 Moto3 winners
David Muñoz 3
José Antonio Rueda 10
Angel Piqueras 4
Maximo Quiles 3
Adrián Fernández Honda 1
Taiyo Furusato 1 Honda
2025 Constructors winners
KTM (20)
Honda (2)
All GP winners in Moto3 class
David Alonso (18 wins)
Romano Fenati (13)
Joan Mir (11)
José Antonio Rueda (11)
Dennis Foggia (10)
Luis Salom (9)
Alex Rins (8)
Danny Kent (8)
Maverick Viñales (8)
Jorge Martin (8)
Izan Guevara (8)
Brad Binder (7)
Sergio Garcia (7)
Miguel Oliveira (6)
Jack Miller (6)
Aron Canet (6)
Albert Arenas (6)
Pedro Acosta (6)
Jaume Masià (10)
Sandro Cortese (5)
Lorenzo Dalla Porta (5)
Angel Piqueras (5)
Alex Márquez (4)
Niccolò Antonelli (4)
John McPhee (4)
Daniel Holgado (4)
Ivan Ortolá (4)
Enea Bastianini (3)
Marco Bezzecchi (3)
Tony Arbolino (3)
Tatsuki Suzuki (3)
David Muñoz (3)
Maximo Quiles (3)
Ayumu Sasaki (3)
Deniz Öncü (3)
Efren Vazquez (2)
Alexis Masbou (2)
Francesco Bagnaia (2)
Fabio Di Giannantonio (2)
Jorge Navarro (2)
Khairul Idham Pawi (2)
Marcos Ramirez (2)
Celestino Vietti (2)
Raúl Fernández (2)
Andrea Migno (2)
Collin Veijer (2)
Louis Rossi (1)
Jonas Folger (1)
Livio Loi (1)
Philipp Öttl (1)
Can Öncü (1)
Kaito Toba (1)
Darryn Binder (1)
Xavier Artigas (1)
Diogo Moreira (1)
Adrián Fernández Honda (1)
Most successful brands
KTM (112 wins)
Honda (92 wins)
GASGAS (19 wins)
CFMOTO (14 wins)
Husqvarna (8 wins)
FTR-Honda (7 wins)
Kalex-KTM (3 wins)
Mahindra (2 wins)
Peugeot (1 wins)
Total: 258 races