But the 20-year has exceeded even the wildest expectations, scoring podiums at the Circuit of Barcelona and Assen, as well as three remarkable pole positions. The first of those in Jerez meant, at 20 years and 14 days old, he took Marc Marquez’s record for MotoGP’s youngest ever pole sitter. And who knows, after sensational showings throughout free practice, where he would have placed had he not stalled his bike on the grid for Qatar’s season opener? It was there where he set the race’s fastest lap in his MotoGP debut.

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