Veda Ega Pratama Ends The 2025 Red Bull Rookies Cup Series At Runner-Up Position

Veda Ega Pratama, a young Indonesian racer who competed in the 2025 Red Bull Rookies Cup motorcycle racing series. (Special)

JAKARTA - Indonesian young racer Veda Ega Pratama ended the Red Bull Rookies Cup 2025 season as runner-up, after the results of the second race of the last series at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Italy, Sunday.

Starting from second place (P2), Veda ended the second race in fourth place, but he was awarded a penalty of three seconds so that his finishing position fell to fifth.

This result made the 2023 Asian Talent Cup champion get 11 points that were enough to lock up the Rookies Cup runner-up position after the match for Judge Danish from Malaysia without points in this race because he fell.

In the final standings, the racer from Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta Special Region collected a total of 181 points, 55 points adrift of leaders Brian Uriarte, and ahead of Danish who collected 171 points in third place.

ester, who finished second in the second race, had secured the title on Saturday (13/9) as he won the race, while Veda did not finish or failed to finish.

Meanwhile, in this second race, another young Indonesian racer, Kiandra Ramadhipa, finished the race in seventh position.

This torehan made the 15-year-old, one year younger than Veda, finish their first European race competition in eighth place with 108 points.

Ramadhipa's achievement in eighth position, the same as that achieved by Veda in his first season (2024), when he collected 112 points.

This season, Veda's best achievement in a competition that gave birth to a great rider in MotoGP is winning three races, namely twice at the Mugello Circuit, Italy, and once at the Sachsenring Circuit, Germany (race 2).

For Ramadhipa, his most beautiful debut was in the first race at the Sachsenring, when he climbed the podium second under thetine.