The CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team rider starts the flyaway races with an 82-point lead in the World Championship

Goodbye, Europe; hello, Asia! The Moto3 World Championship travels to Indonesia this week to kick off the oversea races and thus face the final stretch of the championship. There are only six GPs left to put the finishing touch to the 2024 season and the lightweight category has a clear leader: CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team rider David Alonso. The Colombian leads the standings since the Catalan GP, the sixth round of the season, and, after fourteen races contested, he has an 82-point lead. In Indonesia, the goal is to extend the gap one race more to be able to have a chance of mathematically sealing the title in Japan. To do so, Alonso needs, at least, to leave Mandalika with a 75-point lead over the second. This weekend, the young Colombian rider will fight to get his ninth victory of the season on a track where he showed a great performance last year to finish on the podium. The CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team rider achieved his best grid position of the year in Mandalika, in what was his first time on the front row. In the race, Alonso fought for the victory until the last lap, just to cross the finish line in second position, one tenth off the winner, Diogo Moreira.

His teammate Joel Esteban faces a completely unknown phase of the season. In the coming weeks, the CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team rider will deal with five new tracks for him and the first one will be Mandalika. The young rookie faces the challenge with confidence and with the aim of continuing learning day by day in the lightweight category. The last few races have not been easy for the Spanish rider, who this weekend in Indonesia is once again setting himself the goals he set in the last rounds: to get straight into Q2 and fight for points in the race.

David Alonso: “A different part of the World Championship is beginning, which is full of challenges. On the oversea races we know that anything can happen. These races test you mentally, it is not just about going fast, it is much more: the schedules, the meals... To fight for the World Championship there is a new experience, I will have to pay a lot of attention to the team and the people who have been through this situation before, like Nico Terol or Jorge Martínez “Aspar”. You have to listen to the experienced ones because I am still a child and, sometimes, I make decisions believing that they are the right ones, but that is not the case. It is more important to know how to compete than to just go fast.”

Joel Esteban: “Mandalika is a new track for me. Also, the climate is very different, and I am not used to racing in those conditions. I will have to work hard from the beginning. We have to continue along the same lines as this weekend, gradually understanding where we can improve. I am not expecting anything, but I have the clear objective of going straight into Q2 and trying to get back into the points."