The dream realized in Motegi
With the tenth success of the season obtained in Motegi, David Alonso he graduated mathematically Moto3 world champion. The Colombian, the first from his nation to have obtained a world championship title in the MotoGP, let himself go into celebrations and tears with four races to go, with a future that will always see him with the Aspar team next season, this once in Moto2.
The joys before and after the race
While waiting for the jump in category, the 18 year old made his first comments ad AS as a new world champion, venting all his joy after the celebrations on the track and the celebrations on the podium: “I just can thank everyone who made all this possible – he declared –those who helped me get this far and who supported me in difficult times. I feel very lucky to experience all this. On Saturday, after training and race planning, I was doing well. Then I thought I could become world champion and I didn’t realize it. I got to the hotel and my sensitive side came out and I started crying. I understood that I needed it, that it was good for me. Everything I cried yesterday I didn’t cry after the race.”
Tensions and crises
A not easy GP to face for Alonso, both due to the tension felt despite the possibility of playing for other match points for the title with a considerable advantage (with still four races to go) and due to a crisis faced during this world championship: “The beauty of a title race is that there are situations that test you and make you improve for the future – he explained – and I had to fight with this fear. Especially in turns 7-8 I was always thinking about not falling. This means that I didn’t bend as I should have at the start, I was very tense because I was afraid of losing. Or rather, I was afraid of winning. Then I tried to stop, breathe and fight this emotion. This year, moreover, it seemed as if time never passed. A weekend became a week. Always being at the highest level, every time you go out on the track, wears you out. After England I fell and there was a moment of crisis. Between England and Austria it was difficult, I had to reset, I had no energy left and I started to dedicate myself to road cycling. I had spent everything and there was half the season left. I had a week where I didn’t want anything and this was a turning point in the championship.”.
The last laps
Furthermore, Alonso recounted the sensations and emotions he felt during thelast lap: “In the last three laps I understood that I had to give everything. I saw +0.1 on the board. And on the last lap, rather than closing the gap, I focused on doing my best lap. I looked at the dashboard and saw my lap times. And when I got to the downhill braking I started thinking about the title, when they didn’t pass me I realized that it would be very difficult for them to pass me in the chicane. At that point I really thought my dream would come true.”
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