Dorna has announced that the 250cc replacement series Moto2 will debut this year in the Spanish CEV Championship. The class is being introduced this year in hopes that teams and manufacturers will race in the CEV in order to develop their bikes in preparation of the classes debut on the world stage in 2010.

So far two top Spanish teams have committed to racing, the Laglisse Yamaha team and the BQR team (also known as Blusens Racing). Laglisse will use Yamaha engines while BQR plan on using Honda engines. Laglisse's CEV Supersport champ Angel Rodriguez is expected to ride one of their entries, BQR's riders are unknown at this point. It is also rumoured that several current 250 GP riders may also race in the CEV Moto2 championship so that they can learn the bikes before their world championship debut in 2010.

Personally I like this move for three reasons, one it helps with bike development before they're thrown in the deep end in GP racing, two it may help some riders reestablish themselves on the GP front by having a strong season in the CEV and three it hopefully will bring some more attention to the brilliant CEV series.