This Saturday, David Alonso became the first Colombian to become Moto3 world champion, in the 75-year history of the event, by spectacularly winning the Japanese Grand Prix, at the Motegi circuit, his tenth victory of the season.
With his victory, Alonso finished with 321 points, 109 more than David Holgado, with four races left to finish the championship, which gives him credentials for his promotion to Moto2 in 2025.
Alonso, who started in third place, behind the Spanish Iván Ortolá (KTM) and the Dutch Collin Veijer (Husqvarna), and with his other great rival, David Holgado, starting ninth, he lost positions at the beginning until falling to sixth box, but then, with eight laps to go, he started to climb.
First, the Colombian had a head-to-head in a couple of laps with Holgado to climb to fourth place and then he continued accelerating to stay between second and third place, something that was enough for him to win as long as Ortolá was not ahead.
Alonso reached the lead with four laps remaining, but then began a fight to win the race with Adrián Fernández that was resolved in favor of the Colombian-Spanish.
An error by Fernández two laps from the end allowed Alonso to put a light advantage over his rivals and then, in his eagerness to catch up with the Colombian, Ortolá fell with a lap and a half left and was left out of the fight for the title. .
“I don’t know what happened today, the truth is that it is a very strange feeling. Yesterday when I was at the hotel, I went to the bathroom, I saw myself in the mirror and I said ‘tomorrow I’m going to be world champion’ and I started to cry,” he told the media. “I didn’t know if I was going to make it, what I was sure of was that I was going to give my all. “I gave it my all,” he added.
Alonso took a lap in celebration with a double flag in his hand: at the top, that of Colombia, the nationality he has thanks to his mother, and at the bottom, that of Spain, where he and his father were born.
With his victory in Japan, Alonso equaled a record that until now was held by champions such as Valentino Rossi, Fausto Gresini, Marc Márquez and Joan Mir: being the only ones to win 10 or more races in Moto GP junior categories in a single season.
Since his debut in Moto3 in 2023, Alonso has proven to be a rider with exceptional qualities, standing out both in his driving speed and in his decision-making in races.
This quickly earned him the backing of his team, the CFMoto Aspar Team. This support, added to his results on the track, allowed him to earn a place in the Moto2 category for the 2025 season, racing for the same team and bringing him closer to his ultimate goal of competing in MotoGP. There he will share a team with Dani Holgado, his main opponent for the next season.
For now, Alonso has four more races to compete in the category, in Australia, Thailand, Malaysia and Spain, on November 17, which will conclude his time in Moto3.
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