The first chapters in the history of Albert Arenas are repeated: like so many pilots, he inherited the obsession with the speed of his father Manel; like so many riders, very young, at four he got on his first pocket bike; and like so many pilots, at age seven he was already competing in training categories. Girona as Maverick Viñales, although a year younger (24 years), ran on the same teams, tamed the same bikes and raised the same titles as him, but in 2014, when he began to stand out in the Spanish Speed ​​Championship ( CEV), its path was twisted.

Since then the story of Albert Arenas is different from the rest.

Absent MotoGP in Qatar, yesterday he won the first race of the Moto3 World Championship being the second oldest veteran of the grid only behind the British John McPhee, precisely who most discussed the success. In the six years that have passed from what had to be his takeoff to his triumph yesterday, many things happened, many injuries, many disappointments and only some joys, although all of them crucial. Like the call from Jorge Martínez Aspar that he received at the end of 2016, when he was already 20 years old, to finally offer him a fixed position in the World Cup.

But before that he needed a lot, a lot of patience.

Arenas appeared in the CEV in 2011, with only 14 years old, like all prodigies, and excelled immediately. In his first year, with adversaries such as Álex Rins , Álex Márquez , Jack Miller , Pecco Bagnaia , he won fifth place; in the following season he climbed to his first podium; and in the other, he celebrated his first victory in Albacete. In 2014, he was going to fight for the championship and make his debut in the Moto3 World Championship when he broke three right-handed metacarpals in Alcañiz and had to be off several months. In the end the entire course was lost. And one course later, in 2015, although he was runner-up of the CEV behind Nicolò Bulega, nobody called him.

For a while he didn't know what to do.

The World Cup train had passed and he could look for other formulas, such as Superbikes, or insist on his dream. And that he did. Although at the same time another future was secured. While staying at the CEV at an unusual age, at age 20, he studied Industrial Engineering at the Chemical Institute of Sarriá, a rarity for a pilot. In fact, since the withdrawal of Axel Pons there is no graduate in the paddock. Between notes, in mid-2016 Aspar called him to replace Alexis Masbou in some races and, after securing his presence in the World Cup at the end of that same year, he is now a regular at Moto3.

In fact, yesterday's victory is the fourth in his record.

In 2017, despite several injuries, he maintained the confidence of Aspar, in 2018 he achieved his first World Cup triumph in Le Mans and, last year, despite a very hard fall in a bicycle training that almost cost him the spleen, he renewed for this 2020 thanks to a victory in Thailand. This course is aimed at the Moto3 title and try, once and for all, to begin the ascent that takes you to MotoGP.

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