David Alonso will have his first chance to win the 2024 Moto3 world title, and make history for Colombia, at this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix💦.

The CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar rider arrives at Motegi with a 97-point lead over Dani Holgado, with༒ Ivan Ortola (-105 points) and Collin 𝔉Veijer also clinging onto a slim world championship chance (-108 points).

Winner of nine grands prix so far this season, Alonso will be crowned champion on Sunday (with four rounds still remaining) if he holds a title lead of at lꦕeast 100 poin🏅ts.

In other words, he needs to beat Holgadꦍo by at least three points and not concede more than five to Ortola and seven to Veijer.

But the 18-year-old insists he wo🌊n’t be doing an maths on the bike.

"In Japan, the only numbers I am go𝔍ing to think about are the gears,” he said.

“I am going to listen a lot to my te𓆏am and try to stay in a bubble.

“Jorge Martínez ‘Aspar’ always tells me that I do not have to prove anything to 💧anyone, that you have to race out of pas🌟sion and not because you want to prove something.

“I do not have to rush to do things, that will be 🍸my mentality in Japan. I don't want the pressure of the numbers, on track I want to leave them aside.”

A tenth win of the season for Alonso, who will move up to Moto2 with CFMOTO Aspar next season, would not only clinch the crown on Sunday but equal Joa𓄧n Mir’s record for most Moto3 victories in a single year.

Marc Marquez and Fausto Gresini are the only other riders to have taken 10 wins in a single lightweight class season, duri♛ng the 125cc era, with Valentino Rossi setting the record of 11 125GP wins in 1997.