Spaniards stunned: “He looks like a copy of Valentino Rossi.”

Iberian press extols new Moto3 champion Izan Guevara: “He looks like Valentino Rossi, huge talent.”

The Spanish press is extolling these days Izan Guevara, the Team Aspar centaur who just won the Moto3 World Championship at the age of 18.

The Iberian rider is the new promise of Spanish motorcycling after Pedro Acosta. The newspaper Marca interviewed a number of experts, starting with team owner Jorge Martínez Aspar: “He has an incredible talent, the naturalness and ease with which he does what he does always surprises us. He is growing and advancing at a crazy speed.” “He’s a unique talent, he doesn’t even know the gifts he has. His spontaneity makes him special,” vouched former rider Nico Terol.

Former Italian centaur Gino Borsoi is also impressed and makes important comparisons: “He has a brutal talent. In Japan they asked me who he looks like, and I think he looks a lot like Valentino Rossi, because of his desire to ride motorcycles, his desire to win and to live from inside the paddock. He’s always joking and laughing, he works as little as Valentino did in his day, but he has a huge talent. He looks like a copy of Valentino, but let’s see how he will do in Moto2, how he will adapt to the category.”