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Determination and aggressiveness have brought Toni Elias to become a MotoGP rider. His career began in 1999 when he concluded the 125cc Spanish Championship in 3rd place. In the following two years he built up his skills in the 125cc World Championship. But it’s in 2001 when the world recognized his true value, when Toni fought for the final victory in the category until the last race of the season, but a fall in the last lap ruined his goal to become the champion. After such a special season, in 2002 the rider from Catalunya began his adventure in the quarter class category with Aprilia.

In the first two of three years in 250cc, Toni concluded respectively in fourth and third place in the final standing. In 2005 the big step in MotoGP with the Yamaha Tech3. The year after he moved to the Honda satellite Team and in his first race of the season he conquered a good fourth position. In the same year the first historic victory in MotoGP for the young rider, with an unforgivable performance, in a battle until the last corner with seven times World Champion Valentino Rossi at Estoril. In 2008 a new adventure begins for the strong spanish rider, he joins the Alice Team onboard the Ducati Desmosedici GP8 Sat with Bridgestone tyres.