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Mallorca has a new sports hero: Joan Mir, 23, was crowned world champion of MotoGP, the premier category of motorcycling.
In the Valencia Grand Prix, seventh place was enough for the Mallorcan to take the title. The Suzuki rider is 29 points ahead of the top of the championship standings and can no longer be beaten in the last race of the season on Sunday 22 November in the Portuguese Algarve.
“It’s a dream, something incredible. Words fail me,” said the PS professional after the Valencia race. And Mir only drives in the premier class for the second year. After winning the World Championship title in the Moto3 category in 2017, the Mallorcan started Moto2 in 2018 and rose to MotoGP in just one year.
I capped off a season in which he is not necessarily the fastest, but the most consistent driver. If he fails to win again in Portugal, he would be the first premier motorcycle class champion to win the title with just one first place this season.
Motorcycling is very important in Mallorca. There are many talents. And also another MotoGP world champion. Jorge Lorenzo, now 33, won the title three times and retired from active racing at the end of 2019.
The victory is also historic for Suzuki. Because since Kenny Rogers Junior’s title in 2000 the Japanese have not had a world champion in the “upper house.”
