Indonesian teenage rider Kiandra Ramadhipa secured a hard-fought fourth-place finish in Race 2 at the FIM Moto3 Junior World Championship in MotorLand Aragón on Sunday, September 27, 2026, after leading portions of a chaotic, tightly contested race won by Fernando Bujosa.
Sunday at MotorLand Aragón delivered the kind of frantic, lead-swapping spectacle that makes the FIM Moto3 Junior World Championship a brutal proving ground. For Kiandra Ramadhipa, the 16-year-old rider from Sleman, Yogyakarta, the sixth round of the 2026 season brought both a near-podium heartbreak and proof that he can run at the sharp end of a world-class grid. Racing for the Honda Asia-Dream Racing Junior Team, Ramadhipa bounced back from a challenging qualification session to grab fifth on the grid after posting a lap of 1 minute 57.706 seconds on Saturday, September 26, 2026, which put him just 0.546 seconds behind the polesitter, his teammate Kiattisak Singhapong.
Race-Day Chaos and the Battle for the Lead
The main events on Sunday, September 27, 2026, tested every ounce of racecraft in the field, with race one getting underway at 16.00 WIB followed by race two at 19.00 WIB. In the opening race, Carlos Cano of CFMoto Aspar Junior Team seized early control, but Ramadhipa kept the pressure on with a blistering fastest lap of 1 minute 58.538 seconds before crossing the line to take the runner-up spot behind Cano.
If Race 1 was close, Race 2 was a tactical war of attrition. Fernando Bujosa of the AC Racing Team bolted to the front at the lights, while Ramadhipa’s teammate, Kiattisak Singhapong, suffered a crash and had to withdraw from the race with 10 laps remaining. Smelling blood, Ramadhipa methodically worked his way forward from fifth place, breaching the top two within five laps and shadowing Bujosa.
The turning point arrived on lap six. Ramadhipa executed a bold, late-braking overtake near the final corner to snatch the lead. The triumph was short-lived; on the seventh lap, he was re-passed by Gonzalez and Bujosa simultaneously. As the laps wound down, a pack traded paint and position. When just 2 laps remained, Rama briefly dropped to P4 before fighting back past Giulio Pugliese of CFMoto Aspar Junior Team, though a late charge saw Carlos Cano return to the front. In the end, Bujosa crossed the line first to win Race 2, while the top positions behind him were filled by Giulio Pugliese, Yaroslav Karpushin, Ramadhipa, and Cano.
Building Momentum in Spain
Despite missing out on the rostrum in the afternoon, Ramadhipa’s weekend haul of 33 total points—20 from his runner-up finish in Race 1 and 13 from Race 2—cements his upward trajectory in his debut season in the category. The young Indonesian rider entered the Aragon paddock sitting fifth in the championship standings with 80 points, buoyed by a breakthrough victory at Estoril and a third-place finish in Barcelona, alongside a strong points-scoring run in Valencia where he started from 12th, finished 10th in race 1, and took sixth in race 2 while setting a fastest lap of 1 minute 38,797 seconds.
Ramadhipa stated that he felt 100 percent ready for the sixth round at MotorLand Aragón, explaining that after finishing the Red Bull Rookies Cup season, he could now focus entirely on MotoJunior, and although the last few races had been quite difficult for him, they were very well prepared to compete and he came to Spain aiming to keep fighting until the end, never giving up and scoring as many points as possible.
That underdog resilience stems from a packed racing calendar. Having balanced the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup alongside his junior grand prix commitments, Ramadhipa noted ahead of the weekend that dropping one series allowed him to dial in his focus entirely on MotoJunior. Familiarity with the MotorLand Aragón layout also aided his cause; he previously secured a sixth-place finish in the European Talent Cup at the venue after serving a long lap penalty, giving him vital data to manage the tricky Spanish circuit.
Championship Standing After Aragón
With the Aragon rounds in the books, Ramadhipa holds 113 total points, solidifying his grip on fourth place in the overall FIM Moto3 Junior World Championship standings. Carlos Cano leaves Aragon atop the leaderboard with 180 points, leaving the PT Astra Honda Motor-backed rider trailing the championship leader by 67 points as the season heads toward its final stretch.