Jorge Martín extends the idyll of Spanish motorcycling

Jorge Martin made history. This boy who woke up every morning dreaming that he would one day be a MotoGP world champion has already made his dream come true and written his name in the motorcycling history books. He will forever be remembered as one of the five Spaniards to win MotoGP. With this title, the Madrid native extends the legacy of The Spanish motorcycle that, Since 2009, there has always been at least one champion in one of three categories.

There are 60 titles in total for Spain in MotoGPstarting with the first of Ángel Nieto’s 12+1s in 50cc in 1969. Indeed, from 2003 until today, there has only been one year in which Spain did not had no representatives in any of the three categories of the Motorcycle World Championship (MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3). It all started when Dani Pedrosa won three titles in three years (one in 125cc and two in 250cc). In 2006, Álvaro Bautista won, in 125cc, and Jorge Lorenzo, in 250cc, where he would repeat the title the following year.

In 2008, the winning streak stopped after Marco Simoncelli defeated Álvaro Bautista in 250cc by 37 points (281 to 244). Pedrosa, for his part, finished third in MotoGP, far behind Valentino Rossi. The following year, in 2009would begin a sequence that still lasts today thanks to the title of Jorge Martin this season. Julián Simón won the 125cc World Championship with solvency ahead of the British Bradley Smith.

Since then, there has always been at least one Spaniard on the champions’ podium. 2010 It was one of the best years. The first Spanish treble in history occurred as it was only raced in three categories. Marc Márquez, in 125cc, Toni Elías in Moto2 and Jorge Lorenzo, in MotoGPwere champions of all three categories that year, which only happened twice more (2013 and 2014). In 2013, Maverick won Moto3, Pol Espargaró Moto2 and Marc Márquez MotoGP; while in 2014 the Márquez brothers won in Moto3 and MotoGP and Tito Rabat did the same in Moto2.

Before all that, in 2011, Nico Terol won the last year of the 125cc before the category was renamed Moto3. Next class, 2012, Marc Marquez won the Moto2 title and Jorge Lorenzo He won his second World Cup in the premier category before Cervera’s came with two in a row in his first two years. Then came two seasons where Spanish riders only won in MotoGP (Lorenzo 2015 and Márquez 2016).

Career comes into play

After two years of drought, the quarry appears with nine titles in a row in the lower categories (six in Moto3 and three in Moto2). Joan Mir won her first Moto3 title in 2017at the same time as Márquez won his fourth MotoGP world championship. Just after being the current MotoGP champion, Jorge Martinthe fact that It happened in the Balearic Islands in the Moto3 record and he stood on the champions podium alongside number 93. As a curiosity, it should be noted that that year Bagnaia was Moto2 champion. From now on, the three dominate the premier category.

In 2019, it is the Márquez brothers, Marc and Álexwith two titles in MotoGP and Moto2 which maintained this hegemony. 2020 would be the year of the eight-time world champion’s injury, but Joan Mir looked to add a new championship for Spain in motorcycling’s highest category, with Albert Arenas doing the same in Moto3. 2021 was the year a star named Pedro Acosta was born.

The Mazarrón shark has conquered the Moto3 title in his first year in the World Championship which moved him to Moto2. His successor in the list of winners was Izan Guevarawith Augusto Fernández conquer the intermediate category. In In 2023 they were replaced by Jaume Masiá and Acosta. And in this 2024 was Jorge Martín the one who marked history and prolongs this idyll. But you can also count on David Alonso, because even though he races under the Colombian flag, he is from Madrid by birth, he grew up in Spain and also trained here. Which says a lot about the good work they are doing in the Spanish motorcycling career.