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

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

Winner o🐈f 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 a⛦t least 100 points.

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

Bu🧸t the 18-year-old insists he won’t be doing an maths 🎉on the bike.

"In Japan, the onlyꦗ numbers I am going to think ab🤪out are the gears,” he said.

“I am g🌄oing to listen a lot to my team and try to stay in a bubble.

“Jorge Martí💖nez ‘Aspar’ always tells me that I do not have to prove anything to anyone, that you have to race out of passion 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 pr⛦essure 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 Joan 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 lightw✃eight class season, during the 125cc era, with Valentino Rossi setting the record of 11 125GP wins in 1997.