David Alonso became this Saturday the first Colombian to become Moto3 world champion, in 75 years of history of the event, by spectacularly winning the Japanese Grand Prix, at the Motegi circuit. his tenth win of the season.
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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. .
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.
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