At the Japanese Grand Prix, David Alonso reaches another milestone with the Moto3 world title. He is also the first ever world champion by a Chinese constructor.
At the start of season 2024, David Alonso led four of the five days of pre-season and already had the script that would follow the category this year on paper. Victory in Qatar came as no surprise; victory in America was a positive. The wins in France, Barcelona and Italy were a message to the outside world: he had no intention of giving options. To no one.
With three rivals matched, three drivers snatching points from each other, Alonso's lead was growing little by little. The knock on the table in Germany, after hitting the ground running on Friday, was another important step on that road. The sense of superiority exuded by the Colombian, with six wins in nine races, began to spark rumours about whether he could surpass Joan Mir's 10 Moto3 victories in 2017 or Valentino Rossi's 11 wins in the lightweight class in 1997.The long faces after second place in Britain gave way to joy again with the triumph in Austria. Another win in Misano ended the doubts of Aragon and San Marino and allowed him to once again distance himself from his three rivals, who were already shooting towards the title, forcing them to rethink their goals until the end of the year. In Indonesia, he went from the ground, on Friday, to the sky, on Sunday. And now in Japan, where he arrived depending on himself to secure the title with four races to go, he has won the title as champions like to do, with a victory.
It has been a long road to win the Moto3 title and he has shared it with many people. Many of them have even been on the podium with him: Jorge, Nico, Mauri, Barabba, Óscar, Roger, Majo, Giagi, Paolo and Vicente. Without them, and many others, you would not be reading this text and he would not have celebrated the seventh world title in the light category in Japan for a master 125 / Moto3 team, the CFMOTO Aspar Team.
In 2017, David Alonso made his debut in the Spanish championship with Aspar Team Junior, winning his first title in the 85GP class in 2018. 2 years later, he became champion in the European Talent Cup and in 2021 he won the Red Bull Rookies Cup. In 2023, after the Moto3 season, he was 3ein the World Championship Classification and he eventually captured the Rookie of the Year title in Moto3.
Jake Dixon's racing career debuted in 2010. Seven years later, in 2017, he finished with two wins in British Superbike. There, he eventually finished sixth in the final standings. In the British GP, he appeared as a Moto2 wildcard after which he finally moved into the Moto2 championship in the Angel Nieto Team in 2019.