The first objective of his short career is unlocked: the Colombian David Alonso He was crowned Moto3 world champion at only 18 years of age and on his second attempt. His triumph in Japanese Grand Prix, in Motegiallowed him to get 109 points ahead of the Spanish Daniel Holgado to ruin a championship that he dominated from start to finish.
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After winning, he celebrated again in his own way: he took out a minibike and walked around the circuit. In the midst of the excitement, he read the letter he wrote the night before the GP to calm his nerves.
No secrets
“It scares me to think how my life can change in less than 24 hours. It’s at night and I just feel like crying, I look in the mirror and say to myself: you are going to be world champion and my eyes water... It is the dream that I have always wanted as a child,” he indicated.
It swept and was phenomenal, this is how you can describe the year of David Alonso, who won ten grand prizes of the 16 run to date. His numbers are exceptional: in 38 races in the category he won 14 (four in 2023), surpassing the Italian Romano Fenati with the most victories in Moto3.
On the motorcycle he knows that he is very strong, but off the track he does not lose that humility that his Bumanguesa mother instilled in him, who made him fall in love with Colombia despite being born thousands of kilometers away.
What was learned
“It is a mistake to believe that you are the best, if you do it it means that you think you can’t learn anything else and nothing needs to be improved. That’s when the results stop coming. You always have to have the humility to continue improving,” he confessed in an interview with THE TIME before the race.
The key to this season was that resilience that he always showed, never failing despite the difficulties. His victories, to a large extent, always came with agonizing finishes and overtakes in the last lap, that was his hallmark this year in a category in which he flew.
“Sometimes we had to fight until the last lap. I have remained calm and cool to think correctly about each movement. You are going at full speed, but you must have the serenity not to take a wrong step,” he said.
“All the rivals have been very high, fighting in all the races, that makes us raise the level between us. We have been side by side, fighting until the last lap in a beautiful battlewith a lot of respect, but always with that tension of seeing who wins,” he added.
His victories have made the Colombians vibrate, who met him last year when he debuted in Moto3 and began to stand out, showing that he was made for great things. “If I have had anything to do with Colombian motorcycling gaining strength, it encourages me to continue fighting.”
The Moto3 World title is already in his hands, but the season is not over, he has four races left to take a dip in the masses and take a ‘triumphant walk’ before starting to prepare for the challenging Moto2 campaign in which the next year after the support that the CFMoto team gave him. His dream of being in MotoGP is getting closer, this was just the first step.
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