The CFMOTO Valresa Aspar Team rider has won his third consecutive race and has a 37-point advantage at the top of the standings

CFMOTO Valresa Aspar Team rider David Alonso has scored at the Italian GP his fifth victory of the season. The Colombian, who took pole position yesterday in Mugello, was the clear favourite and has not disappointed. Alonso has made a great start and has maintained first position in the opening laps. However, after the first four laps, the crash of Filippo Farioli and Xabi Zurutuza has made race direction to stop the race. The race has resumed with only eleven laps remaining. The CFMOTO Valresa Aspar Team rider has started again from first position, but his rivals have not made it easy for him. Six riders have battled in the leading group and have exchanged the first places, among them, Collin Veijer, Ryusei Yamanaka, Taiyo Furusato, David Muñoz and Iván Ortolá. With four laps to go, Alonso has taken the lead of the race and has not left it. The Colombian has been able to open a gap at the front on a track where races have traditionally been held in groups until the end, and although Veijer has shown great pace in the last laps and has got closer, he has not been able to beat Alonso. The CFMOTO Valresa Aspar Team has crossed the finish line 0.132 ahead of Veijer. Third has been Yamanaka, more than a tenth off. With this victory, Alonso extends his lead in the World Championship to 37 points, in a race in which his main rival, Dani Holgado, has only been able to finish fourteenth after having to complete two long laps. CFMOTO Valresa Aspar Team leads the Teams World Championship with a 30-point advantage over the second-placed.

CFMOTO Valresa Aspar Team rider Joel Esteban has finished in eighteenth position in Mugello after a difficult weekend. The rookie has started from nineteenth place and has had to complete a double log lap penalty that has hampered his chances. The Spanish has done the first long lap before the red flag, so in the second race he has started from twentieth place. Esteban has tried to comeback until the last moment and, on the last lap, an incident with another rider when he was sixteenth has relegated him to eighteenth position. Esteban hopes to fight again in the front group in the next race, the Dutch GP, which will be held in three weeks.

VICTORY David Alonso: “We try to focus only on ourselves and make our own path. We have worked a lot on not thinking about those behind when I lead, focusing on my lines and giving my 90%, always leaving a small margin. I have seen all the last laps of the Moto3 races here from 2023 to 2018. Today I have been inspired by Jorge Martín, I have seen that it was possible to break the group and win by coming out first of the last corner.”

18th Joel Esteban (+22.259): “It has been quite a complicated weekend for me, but I have learned a lot. It is a very difficult track and I thought I would be better at it. We have been improving little by little. Starting from nineteenth has penalized me a lot and, in addition, I have had to do two long lap penalties. Now I have my mind set on Assen, where I hope to fight again to be at the front.”