Carmelo Morales, Suter-MMX rider: 1st Spanish Moto2 Champion!
Marc Marquez: Reigning 125cc World Champion rides Suter

Carmelo Morales took the cautious approach to finish the battle for the first ever Spanish Moto2 title at Jerez this Sunday.

Morales already came to the last race of the season with a healthy 21-points lead over Kev Coghlan and needed only a 12th place to take the crown. He finally finished the race in 7th place, just ahead of championship rival Kev Coghlan, enough for Morales to become the Moto2 champion.

Carmelo Morales: “Firstly I want to congratulate the team, because we have achieved our goal and this is because they knew how to keep the focus for those last six races where we couldn’t make any errors and the team did that perfectly. In the race I saw that some of my rivals were in front, but I didn’t want to get into the fight to avoid making a mistake. I had a bit of a gap to the riders in front and behind me. In such a short season where we’ve also had the bad luck not to score in the first race of the year and my back injury, we had to really fight to be competitive. In the end all the work was worth it and now we have to enjoy the title, because it’s a big weight of our minds.”

Marc Márquez, 125cc World Champion will make the leap up to the Moto2 category with the support of Repsol which has been alongside the young rider since his beginnings in the Motorcycle World Championships. The agreement, which is for two years, guarantees that the Spanish sportsman will have all the technical and personnel resources necessary to do battle in such a competitive category as Moto2 within the framework of a solid and stable project.

The sportsman from Cervera (Lleida), at 17 years of age, will compete in Moto2 as the only rider in a Monlau Competition team, with a Suter chassis who took the constructors world championship title this year.

Marc Márquez rides a Suter-MMX Moto2 motorcycle today, Wednesday, at the Jerez (Cádiz) circuit test sessions to begin preparations for the 2011 season.

Aged just 17 years and 264 days, Marc Márquez became on the 7th November this year, the youngest Spanish rider to win a Motorcycle World Championship. The Emilio Alzamora protégé has beaten many other records: last season he won four pole positions and took five race wins consecutively at only 17 years old, beating the records held by Valentino Rossi since 1997, and won 12 pole positions in one season, equalling the historic milestone of Mick Doohan, amongst other achievements.