{"id":20165,"date":"2015-03-23T15:47:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T15:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/2015-moto2-world-championship-begins-in-qatar\/"},"modified":"2015-03-23T15:47:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T15:47:15","slug":"2015-moto2-world-championship-begins-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/2015-moto2-world-championship-begins-in-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Moto2\u00a0World Championship begins in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The 2015 Moto2 World Championship starts this weekend with the Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the recent weather-affected final preseason test in Jerez, it is hard to predict any favourites for the 2015 Moto2\u2122 title as riders prepare to do battle under the lights at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4366\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/binn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Rabat.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4366 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/binn.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Rabat-720x450.jpg\" alt=\"Rabat\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tito Rabat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tito Rabat becomes the first ever Moto2\u2122 World Champion since the class began to attempt to defend his title on the Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS Racing Kalex, with previous Champions having decided to move up to the MotoGP\u2122 class. Rabat is joined in 2015 by two of the top three Moto3\u2122 riders from last season as well as 14 of the top 15 riders in the Moto2\u2122 standings from 2014, with only Maverick Vi\u00f1ales having left the class to join the factory Suzuki Ecstar team in MotoGP\u2122.<br \/>\nSpeed Up Racing\u00b4s Sam Lowes will hope to continue his preseason form during 2015 as he begins his second season in the class, while last years Moto2\u2122 runner-up Mika Kallio has made the switch this year to the Italtrans Racing Team.<br \/>\nWith serial contenders like Johann Zarco, Luis Salom, Axel Pons, Simone Corsi, Thomas Luthi and Rabat\u00b4s new teammate, the 2014 Moto3\u2122 World Champion Alex Marquez, also lining up on the grid, it is shaping up to be an incredibly competitive season.<br \/>\nThe Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar starts on Thursday with two practice days for the riders, before qualifying on Saturday, with the Moto2\u2122 race due to take place at 19:20 local time on Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015 Moto2 World Championship starts this weekend with the Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar. After the recent weather-affected final preseason test in Jerez, it is hard to predict any favourites for the 2015 Moto2\u2122 title as riders prepare to do battle under the lights at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar. Tito Rabat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[912,893],"tags":[623,465,412,213,704],"class_list":["post-20165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gp-2015-en","category-noticias-en","tag-alex-marquez","tag-johann-zarco","tag-moto2","tag-qatar","tag-tito-rabat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}