He never tires of making history. The numbers it has achieved in 2024 leave everyone with their mouths open. At just 18 years old he is rewriting the golden pages of the third category of motorcycling.
For example, a button: the Colombian-Spanish David Alonso On Saturday he set the fastest lap on record in the Moto 3. He did it during the classification tests to define the starting position in the Barcelona Grand Prix, which runs this Sunday.
The Aspar Team driver completed a complete lap of the track in one minute, 45 seconds and 905 hundredths. With that, he not only improved the record that he himself set in May of this year, when he made the turn on the same track in 1:46:111, but it also gave him the opportunity to start the race in first position.
This was the seventh ‘pole position’ that the already world champion achieved in the season. The pilots will also be on the front line of the Barcelona-Catalonia circuit Collin Veijer, from the Netherlands, and Spanish Iván Ortolá.
The last race of the year of the Motorcycle world championship will be held in Barcelona because in Valencia, where the season usually ends, they are still recovering from the blows left by the passage ofl Dana weather phenomenon.
David Alonso is already the rider who has achieved the most wins in a Moto 3 season. So far he has 13 victories in the 19 races that have been held this year in the category.
The triumphs he has so far came in Losail, Austin, Le Mans, Montmeló, Mugello, Sachsering, Red Bull Ring, Misano, Mandalika, Motegui, Phillip Island, Chang and Malaysia. Furthermore, he was second in Silverstone, fourth in Portimao and MortoLand in Aragón. In Assen he placed fifth, while in San Marino he was seventh and in the race in Jerez he finished eleventh.
Alonso is one step away from achieving something that no rider in history has done, in any of the motorcycle world championship categories: reaching 14 victories in the same season.
He has everything in his favor: he will start first, which gives him a certain advantage; He has no pressure because since October 5, 2024, when he won the Japanese Grand Prix, he has been world champion.
In addition, it enjoys a wide advantage over its rivals in the general classification of the world championship. The difference between Alonso and Colin Veijer, who is second, is 160 points.
The Colombian-Spanish rider has, so far, 396. Meanwhile, the Dutch pilot appears with 236. The same units have the Spanish Daniel Holgado, who is third in the CG. The fourth is the Spanish Iván Ortolá, while in the fifth box appears the also Iberian David Muñoz.
With the amount of points he accumulates, Alonso also made history: he became the motorcyclist who managed to accumulate the most units in one year to become Moto 3 world champion, leaving behind the Spanish Álvaro Bautista, who added 338 in 2006.
Who is the biggest winner in the history of Moto 3?
David, a spontaneous boy who is the son of a Spanish citizen and a Colombian woman – that is why he represents the flag of our country – is the greatest race winner in the history of Moto 3.
So far, he has 17 wins. To the 13 he has this year, he adds the four he achieved in the 2023 season. With that, he left the Italian Romano Fenati far behind, who climbed to the top of the podium 13 times.
Alonso is also the driver with the most podiums: so far he has been on the podium 22 times in the years he has been in the category. In 2025 it will increase its capacity: it will be in Moto 2, where 765 cubic centimeter motorcycles are raced.
Who can be champions in the other categories?
This weekend the World Motorcycle Championship ends in all its categories. In the first, the fight for the title is still open. The Spanish Jorge Martín and the Italian Francesco Bagnaia have a chance to win the trophy. The Iberian has 485 points. His rival, who will start in pole position, 461. A win could bring him closer to the title. Meanwhile, the Japanese Ai Ogura, 23, won the Moto 2 championship.
