Coming Future (1): Jose Antonio Rueda

The record-breaking rider is set to join the grid for the 2023 Moto3 World Championship. José Antonio Eda Ruiz (Los Palacios Ibillafranca, Seville, 29 October 2005) is the newest pearl of his academy for the Spanish Youth and is poised to join the list of champions in due course. Those concerned about the future of motorcycling in Spain without Marc Márquez should look to his string of pilots born in the mid-2000s, led by Pedro Acosta (2004) and Izan Guevara (2004). please give me. , and come after them Jose Antonio Rueda (2005), Daniel Holgado (2005), David Muñoz (2006) or David Alonso (2006) is a Spanish pilot who chose to race under the flag of his mother’s country of origin, Colombia.

José Antonio Rueda makes his World Cup debut at the age of 17, but those around him (his career is managed by Monlau Management) rush to make him the new breaker of the precocious record. not here. But of all this record set for him in 2022, there is one that stands out. He was the first ever rider to win his FIM Junior GP World Championship and Red Bull his Rookies Cup in the same season.

He has flawlessly managed the two most important age championships that run more or less parallel on the calendar, winning in his chest and behind him. The FIM Junior Grand Prix title at Misano in September was dedicated to his close friend and pilot Hugo Milan, who died at the young age of 14 in the Arcaños race of the 2021 European Talent Cup. rice field. Nine podiums, five of which were victories, added 238 points from 12 races, a figure not seen since Fabio Quartararo entered the championship (then CEV 125cc) in 2014. , ahead of runner-up David Salvador by 76 points. The Red Bull Rookies Cup title, for which his father worked as a mechanic, tied him up at the final race in Cheste in November with seven podiums and his three victories.

Since winning the title of Spanish Moto4 Champion in 2017 with the Estrella Galicia 0,0 team and Monlau Motorsport, Rueda has not stopped evolving. In the 2020 Pandemic he debuted in his FIM Junior GP where he finished 13th and in 2021 his 8th, scoring his maiden podium at Motomelo .

“Having these riders with us from the beginning, advising them and trusting them was essential to being in MotoGP today, even for world champions. is a clear example of , ”says Jaime Serrano, CEO of the Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 team where he trained. His debut in the Moto3 World Championship will join Red Bull KTM Ajo, considered the best team, but the management of Seville’s sporting rights will remain the responsibility of Monlau Management.

From the start, the Sevillian will have to get KTM after years with Honda for Junior Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 in Junior GPs and only a brief experience with KTM in the last Red Bull Rookies Cup. All were very satisfied with his three days of private testing in Jerez. “Jose Antonio is a rookie and it was his first time working with KTM, so he needed three days of work. Ajo explained.

“The last three days of testing have gone very well. We are improving little by little every day and I feel better on the bike. I would like to thank the team, we have achieved a lot in these first few days.It’s a shame we couldn’t continue on the final day a little more, but I’m very happy and hope to see you in 2023 I am looking forward to the beginning of the year.

The Seville native already knows what it’s like to run a Grand Prix in the Moto3 World Championship, but he hasn’t scored any points in either of the two races he’s run. Its official premiere came at his final race at Cheste in 2021. This is thanks to the call of Indonesian Racing’s Gresini Moto3 team to cover the loss of Gabri to his Rodrigo due to injury. He finished 21st on the grid, and in the race he fell on lap 5 in a fight with Kelso as he approached the points.

This 2022 he will be racing for the Rivacold Snipers Team at Le Mans. He qualified 24th on the grid and this time finished the race, but failed to score any points and finished 21st in a contest for the top 20 with Pitito Fernández in a complicated race, three laps later when the rain worsened. A red flag has appeared. And finished wet.

He goes to the World Cup in a 99 – as a kid he was a big fan of Jorge Lorenzo and is already a two-time champion after wearing the 95 until 2021. There’s no shortage of stars on his Instagram that this RACC pilot hasn’t been photographed with, of course, Los Palacios’ most prominent resident, soccer player Jesús Navas.