The calendar for the 2015 season was announced on 20 October 2014, on the final day of the 2014 season.[32] The championship returned to
Silverstone and
Le Mans, replacing rounds at
Moscow Raceway and
Paul Ricard. Three of the season's seven meetings were held as a triple-header format, amassing to a total of seventeen races.[33] On 11 February 2015, it was announced that the Silverstone round would be moved back a week due to the circuit reacquiring the rights to host the
British round of the
2015 MotoGP season.[34]
The start of the season saw Swiss driver Louis Delétraz taking the championship leadership after two victories at the season opener in Aragon and one in the Hungaroring. He arrived to the season finale still ahead on points, with other seven drivers also able to become champion: Swiss Kevin Jörg, British Jack Aitken, French
Anthoine Hubert, British
Jake Hughes, Japanese Ukyo Sasahara, Norwegian Dennis Olsen, and British Ben Barnicoat.[36][37] Aitken (previously winner in the Hungaroring, Silverstone and the Nürburgring) won the two first races at the final race meeting in Jerez, securing the championship, while Delétraz ended as championship runner-up.[36][38] German team Josef Kaufmann Racing was the teams' champion.[36]
^"Ben Barnicoat chez Fortec" [Ben Barnicoat for Fortec]. AUTOhebdo.fr (in French). Groupe Hommel. 17 November 2014. Archived from
the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
The calendar for the 2015 season was announced on 20 October 2014, on the final day of the 2014 season.[32] The championship returned to
Silverstone and
Le Mans, replacing rounds at
Moscow Raceway and
Paul Ricard. Three of the season's seven meetings were held as a triple-header format, amassing to a total of seventeen races.[33] On 11 February 2015, it was announced that the Silverstone round would be moved back a week due to the circuit reacquiring the rights to host the
British round of the
2015 MotoGP season.[34]
The start of the season saw Swiss driver Louis Delétraz taking the championship leadership after two victories at the season opener in Aragon and one in the Hungaroring. He arrived to the season finale still ahead on points, with other seven drivers also able to become champion: Swiss Kevin Jörg, British Jack Aitken, French
Anthoine Hubert, British
Jake Hughes, Japanese Ukyo Sasahara, Norwegian Dennis Olsen, and British Ben Barnicoat.[36][37] Aitken (previously winner in the Hungaroring, Silverstone and the Nürburgring) won the two first races at the final race meeting in Jerez, securing the championship, while Delétraz ended as championship runner-up.[36][38] German team Josef Kaufmann Racing was the teams' champion.[36]
^"Ben Barnicoat chez Fortec" [Ben Barnicoat for Fortec]. AUTOhebdo.fr (in French). Groupe Hommel. 17 November 2014. Archived from
the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2014.