2024 FIM SUPERSPORT WORLD CHAMPION
The 2024 FIM Supersport World Champion, Spain’s Adrian Huertas–Ducati had to wait until the twelft hand final round in Spain at the end of October before he could claim his second FIM gold medal. FIM Supersport 300 World Championin 2021, twenty-one-year-old Huertas failed to complete a lap of the opening race at round one in Australia in February before finishing third in race two. With one round down and already thirty-four points behind Yari Montella–Ducati, after winning the first race at round two in Spain he failed to score in the second before mounting his come back. Overall wins at the next four rounds in the Netherlands, Italy, Great Britain and the Czech Republic saw him assert his dominance and by the end of July he led by forty-six points, although Montella slashed this to twenty at round seven in Portugal. Despite intense pressure from Montella and Stefano Manzi–Yamaha, after running one-two at round nine in Italy he was back firm lyin control and a pair of second-placed finishes at the pen ultimate roundin Portugal gave him a forty-five-point lead before he secured the title with third in the opening race at Circuito de Jerez–Angel Nieto.
PALMARES
FIM Supersport World Champion - 2024
FIM Supersport 300 World Champion - 2021
2021 FIM SUPERSPORT 300 WORLD CHAMPION
BREAKTHROUGH!
Eighteen-year-old Adrian Huertas is one of this season’s youngest champions and the Spaniard claimed the FIM Supersport 300 World Championship title in conclusive fashion over the eight-round series.
Huertas, who started racing in 2010, ended the season with a sixty-six-point winning margin, although it was not all plain sailing for the young man from Madrid and at times he was forced to dig deep and show his mettle.
His campaign kicked off with victory in the opening race of the season held on home turf at Aragon in late May, a result he backed up with third in race two to move into second in the title chase.
After running one-ten in Italy and one-five in Holland, his opening-race win-streak came to an abrupt end in the Czech Republic in early August where he went six-five, but in true champion’s style he fired straight back at the very next round with a double win to leave his rivals in no doubt that he was the man to beat.
In Catalunya he again faltered with seven-four finishes and worse was to come at Jerez where after coming home seventh in the first race he retired from the second in the early laps.
However, his rivals’ inconsistencies meant heading into the final round in Portugal only his team-mate Jeffrey Buis was in with a mathematical chance of catching him and a second in the opening moto ensured Huertas of the title before he went out on top with a win.
PALMARES
FIM Supersport 300 World Champion - 2021
