The first great Spanish victory in Jerez is already in their pocket

The first great success of Spanish motorcycling in reaching the home Grand Prix at the Jerez-Ángel Nieto circuit has involved one of its best starts in the history of the World Championship. Since 2009, there have been 34 times that, after a GP, Spanish drivers have won the three classifications of the current program and achieving the triplet in a Grand Prix or taking the podium in a category has become common. What will be an unusual fact is that for the first time they will come first in all three categories at the Spanish Grand Prix.

2024 started in a big way. There has already been a triple win in Portimao with Holgado (Moto3), Canet (Moto2) and Martín (MotoGP) making it two – also in Austin – because David Alonso, who won the Moto,3 race is a Spaniard. rider racing with a Colombian license, his mother’s country of origin.

The success in the Portuguese Algarve was so great that, in addition to the triple of wins, 7 of the 9 podiums went to Spanish riders, with one full in Moto3, and the triple leadership for Jorge Martín in MotoGP, Arón Canet in Moto2 and Dani Holgado in Moto3.

And in Texas the trajectory was similar and it was possible to maintain the winning momentum that allowed Ángel Nieto de Jerez to enter the door with the triple leadership in Jorge Martin in MotoGP -with 21 points to Bastianini-, Sergio Garcia Dolls in Moto2 -with two points to Joe Roberts- and Daniel Holgado in Moto3 -also two points to David Alonso-.

If this is the first time the Spanish drivers have arrived with a triple lead in Jerez Yes, we have managed to leave Jerez in the lead all classifications. It was in 2013 when Marc Márquez maintained the lead achieved after his first MotoGP victory in Austin by three points over Dani Pedrosa). Tito Rabat emerged as the leader in Moto2 by 1 point over Scott Redding and in Moto3 Maverick Viñales by 4 points over the evil Luis Salom.

The first time that Spanish motorcycling leads in three categories 2009 after the French GP at Le Mans as Jorge Lorenzo leads by 1 over his teammate Rossi in MotoGP, Álvaro Bautista, also by 1 point over Japanese Aoyama in 250cc and Julián Simón takes 5.5 points from Bradley Smith in 125cc.

At this moment the most powerful year continues 2010, that of the first triplet of titles in Spanish motorcycling with Lorenzo, Elías and Marc Márquez. From Le Mans, the third GP, to the end – 16 consecutive Grands Prix – they dominated the classifications. In MotoGP Lorenzo and in Moto2, Elías exerted undisputed dominance leading them to their respective first world crowns won on the same day, on 10-10-2010 in Sepang. In 125cc the leadership passed between Nico Terol, Pol Espargaró and Marc Márquez who ended up taking the crown.

There were also triple leaders in 2012 -3 GP-, 2013 and 2014 -5 GGPP- and 2019 -5 GP- until they continued on March 24 after Portimao and kept it after Austin.