Profile Izan Guevara: The boy who always goes to his ball

It hasn’t been a long time Izan Guevara Bonin (Palma de Mallorca, 6-28-2004) that boy who had a huge tantrum when he was taken to the football school where his older brother Aitor -player of La Unión of the Majorcan First Regional- was enrolled . He prefers to go to his ball, watch motorcycles in the parking lot or sit on the sofa with his father Toni to watch motorcycle races every Sunday and tell his mother Marga that one day he will sit in the that sofa and watching him race. the night TV like Marc Márquez, his idol forever.

In the winter of 2006 he changed his life with his parents’ gift for Christmas: his first mini electric motorcycle on which he began to train his skills and his parents enrolled him in the Chicho Lorenzo School in Mallorca where he took his first steps with the motorcycle. He spent three years with Jorge Lorenzo’s father and ran in his first race.

“I was very happy and excited. I was accompanied by many friends from the “escoleta” and I really enjoyed it. I also ran for the first time outside of Mallorca, in Valencia, and I was very excited about it”, says Izan now. .

At the age of six, he became part of the school of the Balearic Federation, with Miguel Ángel Poyatos and Dani Vadillo as main mentors, and began to compete in Minibike, achieving his first podium. A successful path he followed before the former Balearic world champion, Joan Mir, was also crowned for the first time at Phillip Island in Moto3 in 2017.

His mother made a last attempt to redirect him to soccer like his brother, but there was no way. His good results gave him access to scholarships -for this he had to do the first or second- which allowed him to continue training in the sport of his dreams, without which, unfortunately he fell by the wayside in a sport that was so expensive to begin with.

In 2012, at the age of 8, he started at Cradle of Champions. He rose to the category MiniGP 110 and is fighting for the title with Dani Holgado, Pedro Acosta or Adrián Fernández, who achieved the title of champion in 2014.

Winning the championship in which he competes has been consistent ever since: in 2019 he was proclaimed winner in Jerez of the European Talent Cup after achieving six consecutive victories in the championship, but had time due to lack of money everything can be done. spend There he caught the attention of talent scout and former champion Nico Terol who forced Jorge Martínez Aspar and Gino Borsoi to hook him up and bring him to the junior structure of the Aspar Team he directed.

In 2020, already in the hands of the Aspar Team, he approached the FIM CEV Repsol-World Junior Moto3 with plans to spend two years. But against all odds he won the title in the first change and won at 16 years old, giving him the opportunity to be a rider in the 2021 World Championship with the GASGAS Aspar Team in the Moto3 category.

He finished his first season eighth in the standings, but could not win the rookie of the year -he was second- because the Mazarrón Shark was in front of him Peter Acosta which will end up doing the double: world champion title and rookie 2022. What will fall is his first victory in a rugged GP of the Americas in Austin. Another constant in his career is that the circuit he stepped on for the first time adapted quickly.

And 2022, for the second time, the crown of Moto3 has arrived. He let Dennis Foggia and his team-mate Sergio García Dols get away and in the sixth race he dealt the first blow to his victory in Jerez. From there he flew, without worrying about others and only looking for time and not losing attention when chasing his wheel. Echao palante and he has a lot of personality said chief Aspar between laughs “you can tell him what you want and he will do what he thinks”. He chained podiums: France, Italy, Catalonia, Germany and the Netherlands which moved him to second position in the fight for the title, just three points behind his teammate.

The podium at Misano, third, allowed him to take the lead for the first time and since he held the reins no one let him down from that first position to allow himself the luxury of adding his third title in the last four years and with two races still of the margin, the sixth world champion for the Aspar Team in the small and special category for being for Aspar in a campaign in which he celebrates his 40 years in Motorcycle World Championship.

He will answer the next stage in Moto2 where he will once again face that rival with whom he is destined to make history for Spanish motorcycling, Pedro Acosta, and will always be under the wise advice of Jorge Martínez Aspar and Nico Terol.