"I could finally put the bike into the last corner hard and finish in P3" – Mogeda reflects on Assen podium
Spanish WorldSSP300 rider Daniel Mogeda stamped his return emphatically with his frantic Race 2 comeback to claim his first 2025 podium
Spanish rider Daniel Mogeda (Pons Motosport Italika Racing) is back in the FIM Supersport 300 World Championship mix after his 2025 debut at Assen. He took home from Assen a P7 in Race 1, and later his first podium of the season from his Race 2 P3 finish. Assen has been good to Mogeda in the past, last season’s trip to the Netherlands brought with it a Dutch double, winning both races on the weekend.
The Catalan rider has experience beyond his years, despite being only 19 years old, this is Mogeda’s sixth season in WorldSSP300, although two of those were part-time campaigns in 2020 and 2021. He is coming off of one of his most successful campaigns of his career, earning an 11th place finish in the Riders’ Championship, spearheaded by his pair of wins at Assen last year. While lightning didn’t quite strike twice at Assen for the #88, in 2025 Mogeda brought the thunder and earned his first podium of the season. Despite starting back in P13, and hovering around P10 for most of the race, a rabid last lap dive launched him up the timesheet from P9 to P3.
On his Race 2 Assen exploits, Mogeda was happy, but already looking ahead for more: “It was a crazy race, like how they normally are in WorldSSP300, but it was good because I could finally put the bike into the last corner and finish in P3. I’m happy and I want to say thank you to my team because they have given me the opportunity to get here and hopefully stay here, to me this is the most important thing. Looking forward to next round in Most, it has been a good circuit for me in the past, so why not another podium there?”
Mogeda and the rest of the WorldSSP300 grid return May 16th-May 18th for the Motul Czech Round, but be sure to tune in for the upcoming Acerbis Italian Round on May 2nd to May 4th via the WorldSBK VideoPass!