 In the 250cc world championship, Barberá won three races along with five other podium results to finish second to Honda's Hiroshi Aoyama.Barberá won the 2009 Valencia Grand Prix, the final two-stroke, 250cc race in Grand Prix history, as the class was to be discontinued in favor of the four-stroke Moto2 class in .On 20 August 2009 it was announced Barberá would move to MotoGP in , riding for the Aspar Racing Team aboard Ducati customer bikes.