After flying through the season, David Alonso won the Moto3 title four Grands Prix before the end of the season at Motegi, in the best possible way since he won the race.
Winner of the first Grand Prix of the season, Alonso ceded first place in the championship to Daniel Holgado after the Portuguese GP, second round on the program, and regained it after Catalonia, sixth of the 20 events this season. He then inexorably widened the gap by accumulating nine victories in the first 15 Grands Prix of the season, exceptional consistency in the foreground when his main rivals suffered up-and-down results.
Before Motegi, Iván Ortolá was the only other to have won more than once this season, with two successes, and was third in the championship behind Holgado. The two men tried to delay Alonso’s inevitable coronation but were unable to do anything against him this Sunday.
At the start of the event, the Aspar driver slipped to sixth position, leaving Ortolá and Holgado to try to chase Adrián Fernández, leader in the first laps. After halfway, Alonso began his comeback and overtook his two main rivals for the world crown in the process, which gave him the necessary advantage to be crowned… but he did not stop there as he took the lead for the first time with four laps to go. Fernández was able to respond but Alonso overtook him again a lap later, this time for good.
On the penultimate lap, Ortolá, who moved up to second place, lost his last hopes with a fall and Alonso celebrated his title with a victory ahead of Fernández and Collin Veijer. Holgado took fourth place in the race. This tenth success of the year in the smallest category allows Alonso to equal Fausto Gresini, Marc Márquez and Joan Mir, the record remaining the property of Valentino Rossi, winner 11 times in 1997.
“I don’t know what happened today.”commented Alonso in the parc ferme. “I don’t know why it’s a very weird feeling. Yesterday at the hotel, before going to bed, I went to the bathroom, saw myself in the mirror and said, ‘Tomorrow, you will be world champion’. And I started crying last night I wasn’t sure I could do it, I wasn’t sure it would be here, but the only thing certain is that I. I was going to give my best.”
“It was a difficult race. At one point I said to myself, ‘Let’s wait for Australia’ because it was too hard today, but afterwards I gave it my all. Thanks to my team, my family, my friends, my motorcycle school and my school I don’t know how to thank everyone, it’s incredible, it’s the dream of my life.”
Of Colombian and Spanish nationality, David Alonso represents the first of the two countries sportingly but has always lived in Europe, where he spent his entire career. In 2020, at the age of 13, he won his first major title, in the European Talent Cup, in his second season at this level. He was then crowned in the Rookies Cup in 2021 and took seventh place in the Moto3 junior world championship in 2022, a year which saw him make his first Grand Prix start, already at Aspar.
Last year, for his first full season in Moto3, he had already set the tone with four successes and third place in the championship. A month ago, Aspar announced Alonso’s promotion to Moto2 next season, where he will team up with Holgado, who remains his runner-up in the championship this year.
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