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The 2013 FIM Moto3 World Championship was a part of the 65th F.I.M.Road Racing World Championship season. The riders' championship title was won by Team Calvo rider Maverick Viñales and runner up by Álex Rins from Estrella Galicia 0,0.
In Moto3, the championship was dominated by three Spanish riders, all riding KTM machinery. Like the premier class, there was a final race title decider between Ajo Motorsport's Luis Salom, Estrella Galicia 0,0's Álex Rins and Maverick Viñales of Team Calvo; if any rider of the three won the race, they finished as the champion, regardless of the other results.[1] After Salom crashed out early in the race, Rins and Viñales battled at the front, with Viñales ultimately coming out as the victor and champion, with Rins being passed for second place on the line by Jonas Folger.[2][3] With Salom only making it back up to fourteenth, Rins finished as runner-up ahead of Salom. With every race won by a KTM rider– seven wins for Salom, six for Rins, three for Viñales and one for Álex Márquez, the teammate of Rins, at Motegi– the marque was comfortably the winners of the constructors' championship, scoring more than double the points of the next placed constructor, Kalex KTM.[4]
The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 2013:[5][6][7]
^1— Livio Loi competed from the Spanish Grand Prix onwards, after reaching the age of 16 on 27 April which is the minimum age to compete in the championship.
Rider changes
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"First Moto3 victory for Álex Márquez". Repsol.com. Repsol S.A. 27 October 2013. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2013. With just one race left in the World Championship, five-point separate Salom, Viñales and Rins, so the winner of the Valencia GP will be crowned Moto3 World Champion 2013.
"Aragon expectant of a home winner". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 23 September 2013. Archived from the original on 7 January 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2013. The weekend will also see two females line up on the Moto3 grid, as Team Calvo's regular entry Ana Carrasco is joined by wildcard Maria Herrera Muñoz with Junior Team Estrella Galicia 0,0.
"Entrevista a Emili Alzamora"[Interview with Emilio Alzamora]. cxmarcmarquez.com (in Spanish). CatalunyaCaixa. 12 November 2012. Archived from the original on 20 November 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2012. El proyecto seguirá la próxima temporada con Rins y Márquez en el equipo, los dos últimos Campeones de España de 125GP y de Moto3.
"Qatar GP– Free Practice". tascaracing.it. La Fonte TascaRacing. 4 April 2013. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2013. The riders of the team La Fonte TascaRacing work hard to find the right feeling with their Honda FTR.
"Hyuga Watanabe". carettatechnology.it. Caretta Technology. 6 November 2012. Archived from the original on 8 September 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2012. Caretta Technology's team is glad to introduce you the second rider after Tonucci: Hyuga Watanabe.
"Moto3: Gresini expands, signs Italian hotshot". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 26 November 2012. Archived from the original on 30 November 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2012. Lorenzo Baldassarri to join Niccolò Antonelli at Team Go & Fun Honda Gresini in Moto3 next year.
"Pressure mounting as Motegi awaits Moto3". MotoGP.com. Dorna Sports. 23 October 2013. Archived from the original on 7 January 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2013. Two Japanese wildcards will join the field in the form of Team Plus One's Sena Yamada and Team Honda Asia's Hiroki Ono.