In 2018, at the age of 10, he was one of the drivers personally selected by Marc Márquez among 200 promising young people who were part of one of the editions of the Allianz Junior Motor Camp, the campus organized by the insurance company and the Marquez brothers … on the Rufea circuit, in Lleida. And eight years later, he will compete for the Moto3 World Championship, the goal of any rider wishing to race in MotoGP. Brian Uriarte (Santander, 2008) He will be part of the powerful Red Bull KTM Ajo after capping a perfect year, winning a historic double: the Red Bull Rookies Cup and the Moto3 JuniorGP World Championship.
His career is so promising that Mattighoffen’s structure allowed him to start this year in Moto3, replacing injured José Antonio Rueda in Portugal and Valenciaafter the serious accident suffered by the champion in Malaysia.
Uriarte is one of those drivers who has gasoline in his veins. At eight years He already stood out in the lower categories, those in which recruiters look for talent. And the Cantabrian was lucky to cross his path Emilio Alzamora who, in addition to being 125 cc world champion in 1999, was the discoverer of the Márquez brothers, their representative for a long time and worked with the Espargaró brothers, Miguel Oliveira, Pecco Bagnaia or Fabio Quartararo.
Uriarte was doing Dirt Track (a kind of motocross) on the Albi circuit and Alzamora was there. “I saw a guy with a KTM 65 and I asked a friend, ‘Hey, where did that guy land from?’ “It was scary.”
“I saw a guy with a KTM 65 and I asked a friend, ‘Hey, where did that guy land from?’ It was scary”
Emilio Alzamora
Motorcycle rider, 125cc world champion
Beyond the talent and possibilities of a pilot, Alzamora pays particular attention to his environment. And he wanted to meet the family. Although Uriarte is not yet in speed competition, he offers his help to José Luis, his fatherfor the moment when he decided to take the plunge. In 2021, he signed him to participate in the European Talent Cup. “He is a very mature driver for his age, aggressive, methodical, hardworking, with a great capacity for sacrifice… Everything you need to succeed goal that we have set for ourselves, to reach the Moto3 World Championship“, explains Alzamora.
Grateful, Uriarte is full of praise for his mentor: “I would say it was a dream come true, because in the end, Emilio has been a reference throughout my life and he has worked with very good drivers with a lot of history behind them.”
“I’m pretty restless with sports. “I like to be a beast off the track so I arrive very prepared on the track.”
Brian Uriarte
biker
You have already started preparing to reach the pre-season in perfect condition and fit the motorcycle. He knows it will be difficult to take over from Rueda, even though Spanish drivers are common in the category. This year, with Rueda, they reached the final podium Angel Piqueras and Maximo Quiles. And nine of the last 13 champions are Spanish, including Maverick Viñales (2013), Álex Márquez (2014), Joan Mir (2017), Jorge Martín (2018) or Pedro Acosta (2021).
“I’m pretty restless with sports. I like to be a beast off the track to arrive very prepared on the track and what I do the most is cycling“I don’t like partying at all, I’m mostly unemployedbut it was time to enjoy and dance a little. I hope we can continue to achieve our dreams. My mechanics like to party a lot and I’ve tried to flow, but that’s not my thing.
On March 1st, your adventure begins on the back of a KTM during the first of the World Cup, in Thailand. Alzamora and Márquez will monitor him.
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