Celestino Vietti is changing direction once again. From 2027, the Italian will race for the CFMOTO Aspar Team in Moto2, leaving SpeedRS and the Boscoscuro project after two seasons to return to Kalex machinery.
Alongside him will be Máximo Quiles, stepping up from Moto3.
But this time, more than the change of colours, what matters most is what Celestino has already made clear.
There is one goal.
To fight for the World Championship.
The MotoGP door, at least for now, has not opened.
Vietti, however, has not chosen to stand still and wait for it.
He has chosen one of the strongest teams in the category and another opportunity to try to reach the premier class through the front door.
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From Boscoscuro back to Kalex
The move to Aspar will mean changing both team and motorcycle.
After two seasons with SpeedRS and Boscoscuro machinery, Celestino will return to a Kalex in 2027.
So this will not simply be a different garage.
Vietti will have to adapt again, find new references and rebuild his feeling with a chassis he already knows from earlier stages of his Moto2 career, but inside a completely different project.
And that seems to be exactly what excites him about the move.
The intention for 2027 is clear: this is not supposed to be a season spent waiting for something else.
It is supposed to be a season spent attacking.
Aspar starts again with Celestino Vietti and Máximo Quiles
For the team, 2027 will bring change too.
Aspar will line up with a completely new pairing, combining the youth of Máximo Quiles with the experience Celestino has accumulated through years in the intermediate class.
Future and experience in the same garage.
Vietti has raced in the World Championship since 2018 and by now knows Moto2 deeply.
He has won races and has stood on podiums. He has lived through very different seasons and learned just how narrow the line can be between a weekend in which he looks capable of beating anyone and one in which everything suddenly becomes harder.
Aspar has chosen that experience.
They are not asking him to learn the category.
They are asking him to try to win it.
MotoGP can wait
For months, Vietti’s name was also linked with a possible MotoGP opportunity for 2027.
That road, however, did not become his next chapter.
And it would be easy to look at another Moto2 season as a fallback.
It is not.
Staying in the intermediate class inevitably means postponing the jump to MotoGP once again.
But doing it by joining a team with the ambition and structure to fight at the front changes the meaning of that decision.
Celestino is not simply staying where he is.
He is changing motorcycle.
Changing environment.
And choosing a team that wants to give him the chance to fight for something much bigger.
MotoGP can wait.
There is still something here worth trying to take first.
2026 has shown both sides of Vietti again
This season has once again explained Celestino rather well.
Speed has never been the problem.
Before Aragon, he sits seventh in the Moto2 World Championship with 113 points and has already collected three second-place finishes in 2026: Austin, Catalunya and Mugello.
There have been weekends when he has looked like one of the strongest riders in the category.
And others when that same speed has been much harder to find.
That is probably the part that really has to change at Aspar.
Not proving that he is fast.
We already know that.
The challenge is turning that speed into something that lasts for an entire season.
Because championships are not won only on the Sundays when everything works.
They are also built on the Sundays when it does not.
Another chance, with a different target
Celestino Vietti has already lived several different lives in Moto2.
Different teams, motorcycles, expectations.
He has been a title contender, a race winner, a rider looking to rebuild momentum.
And yet, when the right weekend arrives, one thing has never really disappeared.
The speed.
In 2027, Aspar will try to build something more consistent around it.
A Kalex to rediscover.
A very young teammate on the other side of the garage.
And a team that is not hiding what it wants from him.
The title.
MotoGP, for now, remains on the other side of the door.
But Celestino is not going to stand in front of it waiting for somebody else to open it.
From 2027, he will knock again.
This time with a Kalex, Aspar colours and an ambition big enough that there is no reason to hide it.
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