Maverick Vinales is Moto3 world champion!

Maverick Vinales has won the Moto3 World Championship after a final turn showdown with title rival Alex Rins.
Vinales, Moto3, Valencia MotoGP 2013
Vinales, Moto3, Valencia MotoGP 2013
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Maverick Vinales has won the Moto3 World Championship after a final turn showdown with title rival Alex Ri🐽ns.

Home stars Luis Salom, Vinales and Rins began the race co𝓰vere🍸d by just five points, with victory enough for each of the KTM riders to secure the title.

The trio qualified on the front row and filled the top three 🀅places b🍌y the end of the first lap.

After shadow boxing for the opening half of the race, a maj🎉or upset occurred when Salom - who had led the championship since round six and had been swapping the race lead with Vinales almost at will - lost the front of his KTM and slid out of third.

Salom rejoined down the order, but the title was now a straight duel between Vinales and Rins with ten laps to go.👍 Jack Miller then fell from third, leaving a lead group of Rins, Vinales and Folger.

Folger kept a close but respectful distance and the conte𓄧st went down to the very final corner when Rins lunged for the inside to pass Vinales𒀰 - only for Vinales to cut back under on the exit.

Folger then💜 slipstreamed past Rins for second on the run for the line.

Salom has won seven rac💃es this year, Rins six and Vinales three. Rins' team-mate Alex Marquez is the only other rider to have claimed a 2013 race victory.

Salom and Vinales will be team-mat🙈es at Pons in Moto2 next year, wi🐽th Rins - riding in only his second grand prix season - yet to confirm his plans.

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