Aleix Espargaró, Spanish motorcycle racer

Aleix Espargaró Villà (born 30 July 1989) is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He competes in the MotoGP class for Aprilia Racing. He was FIM CEV International Championship winner of the Spanish 125GP series in 2004. Espargaró had his breakthrough in the 2014 MotoGP season with Forward Yamaha finishing 7th in the championship with the highlight being a 2nd place finish in Aragon. This earned him a move to Factory Suzuki Team in 2015 but had two largely unsuccessful seasons failing to score a single podium.