VOL. 51 ISSUE 45 NOVEMBER 11, 2014 P37
BY MICHAEL SCOTT
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE
D
oes size matter? Or
speed? For many people,
for much of the season,
Moto3 has been the best race of
the day. At Valencia, for the clos-
ing round of the season, it was
definitely the race of the week-
end.
There was a title to be decided,
and a sharp division in loyalties.
On the one side, the novelty
of two brothers winning World
Championships in the same year.
On the other, the novelty of, for
the first time since 2012, a cham-
pion who was not Spanish.
And on track, the usual typical
Moto3 brawl: heart in the mouth
for all 24 laps. And not just for the
riders.
As we now know, the pro-Span-
ish faction went home happiest.
Blazing Australian Jack Miller did
everything he had to do, which
was to win the race on the Red
Bull KTM; Honda-mounted Alex
Marquez needed to finish on the
podium. It was only clear in the
final two corners that he would
do so, when a last desperate
lunge by Danny Kent (on a KTM
rebadged as Husqvarna) saw the
English rider run wide.
In the end, there were more
Hondas up front to help Marquez
than KTMs to assist Miller. The
younger brother of Marc won the
title by just two points.
It was a second successive
year when every title went to
Spain.
MARQUEZ
DOMINATION
MAKE HISTORY AT VALENCIA
