The Colombian rider will fight to achieve a full set of victories in the flyaway races this weekend in Malaysia

The season is coming to an end and it’s difficult to find new adjectives to describe what David Alonso is doing this year with the CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team. Five consecutive victories, twelve in total, to finish inscribing together their names in the three titles at stake. Riders’, teams’ and constructors’ champions, for the second time in three years and for the first time dressed in blue and fuchsia CFMOTO. The Chinese manufacturer has won its first constructors' title with two races to go and with only two riders on the track. The excellent performance of David Alonso, with the support of his teammate Joel Esteban, has also allowed the teams’ title to return to Valencia after the one achieved by Izan Guevara and Sergio García in 2022. Now, with two races ahead, it might seem that the challenges are over, but in a record year in Moto3, Alonso and the team are looking to continue getting new rewards and to achieve the 12+1 win, the mythical number in the Spanish and world motorcycling scene, to finish building this daydream season.

There are only two opportunities left to achieve that 12+1 victory, the first of them this weekend in Malaysia. Alonso became the first Moto3 rider ever to get five consecutive wins, four of them in the flyaway races that get their last stop this weekend in Sepang. To achieve a full set of victories outside Europe, the young Colombian rider will have to work hard from the first practice session, to correct mistakes he made in 2023 and that prevented him from finishing last season fighting for the title. Without the pressure of a rookie who sees himself third in the World Championship, as happened to him in 2023, Alonso will work to improve his concentration with his mind already set on 2025 but without losing sight of the three steps of the podium.

On the other side of the garage, Joel Esteban discovers this weekend the last of the tracks unknown to him in a World Championship in which he wants to fight for the top 10 again. In Thailand, the CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team rider was around those positions with three laps to go after having made his way back from the sixth row of the grid, but a crash cut his progress. Esteban hopes to be able to erase that final part of the weekend in Buriram and repeat in Q2 to have an easier job on Sunday in the race.

David Alonso: “We are in a moment in which it is very easy to take the feet off the ground, so we have to keep the same mentality. I have to continue being the same, keep working as always and maintain the intensity. The Malaysian track is very wide and it is really difficult to ride alone, it has many straights. We will have to prepare well for the race. I will work on my pace to get the best out of it. Last year I struggled to go fast, so this weekend I will try to spend as much time on track as possible to better understand the corners where I suffered last year.”

Joel Esteban: “I am very focused on myself. Malaysia is a new track for me, with a very different weather. I will have to work hard from the beginning and I will try to look for the reference of an experienced rider to learn from.”