Brian Uriarte was born in Santander, Spain, on August 11, 2008. The recent winner of the Red Bull Rookies Cup and the FIM JuniorGP titles in 2025 takes another step up as a KTM GP Academy rider in 2026: competing in his first full season in the Moto3 World Championship with Red Bull KTM Ajo and with Álvaro Carpe as his teammate.
Uriarte began honing his skills by simultaneously competing in various disciplines from a very young age, combining minibikes, motocross, and dirt track events, which quickly made him a talented and well-rounded rider. In 2016, at just 8 years old, he became the Catalan 110cc runner-up in his first season in the class. In 2017 he won the Spanish MiniGP Championship and the Superprestigio Dirt Track Championship and, shortly after, in 2018, he did the same in the Spanish GP110 Championship.
After this, he entered the ESBK series, where he quickly made his mark and demonstrated his potential, winning the Moto4 title in 2020 -which propelled him to the European Talent Cup for the following seasons.
In 2021, he participated in all 11 races in that competition, achieving his first victory and finishing the year in fourth place overall. In 2022, he took another leap forward, with two wins and two more podium finishes, although a series of DNFs meant had to settle for fifth place overall. Then, in 2023, Uriarte confirmed his move to JuniorGP, finishing his last season in the ETC fighting for the title until the very last moment. Three wins and three second-place finishes were his final tally for the campaign.
In 2024, Uriarte made his debut in the Red Bull Rookies Cup and JuniorGP, where he ended up exploding onto the scene. The Spaniard fought for the Red Bull Rookies Cup title, with eventual champion Alvaro Carpe, finishing second in the overall standings to him. In that rookie season, Uriarte already racked up three victories and nine podium finishes, making him the leading contender for the 2025 crown. In JuniorGP, he was only able to compete in the final five rounds due to the competition’s age limit, which he did not reach until the Jerez round – where he claimed a win and a second place finish. With a fourth, a fifth, and a seventh place in the final three rounds, Uriarte was able to finish tenth in the standings despite missing more than half of the season.
In 2025, the talented Spanish rider was the undisputed standout in two categories. In the Red Bull Rookies Cup, he accumulated seven wins and two second-place finishes, securing the title at the final round at Misano. Then, with five wins, five second-place finishes, and two top-ten results in 12 races, Uriarte became JuniorGP champion well before the season’s end, becoming only the fourth rider in history to achieve the double, following in the footsteps of his teammates: Rueda and Carpe, who won the Red Bull Rookies Cup and the JuniorGP titles before moving on to the world stage in 2022 and 2024, respectively.
Now, Uriarte is ready to reunite with Carpe. They will form one of the strongest lineups in the class for 2026, similar to the Moto2 team with Collin Veijer and Jose Antonio Rueda: two teams comprising of homegrown riders between the ages of 18 and 20.
