Only four drivers have achieved their first podium before Fermin Aldeguer

Fermín Aldeguer marked an important page in his career in MotoGP At Le Mans, he reached the podium at the French Grand Prix at just 20 years and 36 days old. He thus became the fifth youngest driver to achieve a podium finish in the premier class. Before him, other young talents had already impressed with their precocity, writing their names in the annals of the championship.

The youngest rider to stand on a MotoGP podium remains Randy Mamola, who achieved this feat at 19 years and 261 days at the 1979 Finnish Grand Prix, where he finished second.. He is followed by Eduardo Salatino, third in the 1962 Argentine Grand Prix at 19 years and 274 days old..

More recently, Pedro Acosta reached the top three of this ranking, during a 3 MotoGP season that he was approaching as a rookie, with the possibility of erasing many records of precocity. The rider from Mazarron thus inscribed his name in the closed circle of riders rewarded before their twentieth birthday. He climbed to the third step of the podium at the 2024 Portuguese Grand Prix at 2024 years and 19 days.

Norick Abe is the last rider to overtake Fermin Aldeguer. The Japanese rider was 20 years and 10 days old when he finished third in the 1995 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix. This makes him the fourth-youngest rider to have reached the podium in the premier class..

Aldeguer scores a podium earlier than Marquez and Quartararo

Fermín Aldeguer now completes this top 5, just ahead of other big names in the discipline, with whom he currently shares the track.

Marc Márquez, for example, achieved his first MotoGP podium in his very first race in the category, in 2013, at the Grand Prix of Qatar, where he finished third at 20 years and 49 days old.. In the next event, he became the youngest winner in history, taking first place in Austin.

Several years later, fabio quartararo scored his first MotoGP podium at 20 years and 57 days, at the 2019 Catalan Grand Prix, where he finished second behind Marc Márquez. The latter two are 6th and 7th in this ranking since they were dethroned by the Gresini driver.

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