Valentino Rossi’s 27-year record finally beaten
Valentino Rossi's record from 1997 has been brok🀅en

A 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valentino Rossi record which꧃ has stood for 27 years has been beaꦺten.
David Alonso ♕won his 12th M💝oto3 race of the season in Thailand at Buriram.
⛎Alonso has already claimed the Moto3 championship,🧸 becoming Colombia’s first-ever motorcycle grand prix champion.
Alonso has now beaten Rossi’s tally of 11 wins in the class. He has two moಌre races to♏ further his own new record.
He had long since m🅘oved clear of Fausto Gresini, Marc Marquez and Joan Mir who each have 10 wins in a lightwei𓆉ght class.
HISTORY! David Alonso takes his 12th win of the season, he now holds the record fo🌼r the most wins in a lightweight class season 👏🏆
— Crash MotoGP (@crash_motogp)
Rossi set his record in 1997 when he won the 125cc class, riding an Aprilia RS125 for the Nastro﷽ Azzurro Aprilia team.
It is significant that Rossi won 11 out of a total of 15 races in that season, whereas Alonso has more opportunitie🍃s this year.
Alonso is a protege of Marc Marqu꧑ez, having spent time training toᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚgether.
Marquez has also ac𝐆cepted every chance to talk up his young friend’s potential.
Alonso said in Japan that Marquez’s advice was to win championships rather than reaching MotoGP without the experience of win🐷ning.
“He’s an emotional character,” TNT Sports’ Neil Hodgson said abou💧t Alonso.
“He said that he looked at himself in the mirror and burst into tears a⛦t the prospect of what✨ was coming.
“What he can do in key moments of a race, when the pressure is on…
“We’ve seen people who make mistakes, whꦰo push too hard. But he doesn’t. He channels his energy.
꧂“It turns into incredibl✤e focus and he can calculate, at high-speed, his decisions in races like a veteran of 10 years older.
“His race craft is as good as I’ve seen.
"It's Valentino-esque, his personality. He is ch💯arismatic."

James was a sports 🧸journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.