The CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team rider arrives with 37 points over the second placed in Assen, where he will fight to get his sixth victory of the season

After a three-week break, the Moto3 World Championship returns to action with the Dutch GP, the penultimate race week before the summer holidays. The lightweight category reaches the eighth GP of the season with a solid leader: CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team rider David Alonso. The young Colombian has been the clear dominator of the first part of the season after having achieved five victories out of seven. These results allow the CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team rider to arrive in Assen with a comfortable 37-points advantage on top of the standings. Alonso will fight to continue increasing that difference on a circuit where last season, in his first participation there, he finished in thirteenth position. This year, the Colombian will fight to add the Dutch GP to his record book and achieve his fourth consecutive victory. Although Alonso is the clear favourite, his rivals are not going to make it easy for him, especially Collin Veijer, who competes in his home race this weekend and already knows what it is like to climb to the top of the podium this year. Nor should we lose sight of riders like Dani Holgado, second in the World Championship, or Iván Ortolá, who finished fourth in last year's race in Assen.

CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team rider Joel Esteban faces a big challenge again this weekend, on yet another unknown track for him. This has never been an impediment for Esteban, who has previously been able to finish half a second from victory on a track in which he had not competed before, as he did in Le Mans. In Assen, Esteban will return to the working method that he developed with his team in weekends like the one in France, since in the last two races he has not been able to fight for the leading positions as he did previously. In his first year in Moto3, the CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team rider fights to be the rookie of the season against Jacob Roulstone and Ángel Piqueras. The three riders arrive in Assen separated by just seven points, with Roulstone ahead of the Spaniards.

David Alonso: “We arrive in Assen after three weeks without races and, after such a long break, we need to pick up the competition pace again. We have worked a lot at home, but it will be important to be active both mentally and physically in the first practice sessions to get back to that pace. In the end, we only ride the Moto3 in the race weekends and we have not done so for a long time. It will be important to accumulate many laps to adapt again and be as well prepared as possible for the race. I will have to work on several specific points of the track, because it is a circuit where I suffered a lot last year, I was not able to do one of my best races.”

Joel Esteban: “The Dutch GP is another new GP for me, and we are going to work as we were doing before the last two races, because in Barcelona and Italy we had changed our method and it has not worked for us. I have achieved good results on tracks that I did not know and we are going to fight to do well again. We have to qualify well: to get straight into Q2 is a must. The other important objective will be to fight in the front group in the race.”