This weekend Augusto Fernández returns to action once more as a wild-card entry with the Yamaha Factory Racing Team at Round 22 of the 2025 FIM MotoGP World Championship, held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Cheste, Spain.
Cheste (Spain), 12 November 2025
Fernández, who is the 2022 Moto2 World Champion and a former premier-class rider (2023-2024), has already joined the full-time Yamaha teams as a wild card rider four times this year – in Aragon, Brno, Misano, and Sepang, testing the V4-powered prototype engine at the latter two occasions. The Spaniard is highly motivated to continue his endeavours this weekend with the Yamaha Factory Racing Team at the track where he scored third place in 2021 and second place in 2022, both in the Moto2 class.
The 4.0 km Circuit Ricardo Tormo was built in Cheste, Spain, in 1999 and was immediately added to the MotoGP calendar. The Valencian GP was soon known as a must-be-at event, especially when it became the traditional closing round to the MotoGP championship from 2002 onward (except for the 2020 season, due to the global pandemic, and the 2024 season, due to devastating floods). The circuit is often described as quite challenging. Its layout includes nine left corners, five right ones, an 876m longest straight, and it is run anti-clockwise. The stadium-style grandstands seat up to 150,000 spectators and provide them with a perfect view of all parts of the track as the riders go head-to-head one final time this year.
