Jake Dixon’s tear-jerking response to his first-ever Moto2 victory

The Brit showed gratitude to each of his parents and mentioned his unwell grandparent in a heart-warming response to his greatest moment on two wheꦦels.
Appropriately, it tees𝓰 us a homecoming at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone next month.
has a message for you - He's just won a Grand Prix!!
— MotoGP on BT Sport (@btsportmotogp)
A sꦡtill emotional Jake on that fiﷺrst Grand Prix win.
“No words,” he told BT.♊ “Iꦐ’m speechless. I’ve got no emotion, I don’t know what’s going on.
“Can you believe it?
“Anybody out tܫhere, from the UK, who feels like it’s never going to come? Literally never, ever stop believing.
“I’m a kid who came from Dover who had nothing.
“My dad gave me everything to achieve my goals.
“Finally, I’ve won, I’ve got here.
“I bided my time, like the team said, I got into the lead but then made a false neutral and made it hard for my♌self. But determination wins over everythinܫg.”
Hi෴s friend Fabio Quartararo added: “I knew it! I am so happy for him and for his wife.𝐆
“It’s really great for him. This is just🐬 the first one.”
BT’s Sylvain Guintoli said about Dixon: “We know his character, he has that flamboyance. Thꩵere’s nothing better than a happy Jake, he gave us a𓆉 real treat.
“We ꦯall knew it was coming but when you finally stamp that win, after all the hard w⛎ork, it is so nice.
“We all had a moment watching the images.
“It is the work of r🧸esilience, never letting go, always going to work. He’s always on a bike trying to p🐈erfect himself.
“He’s super fit, trying to keep his weight down.
“He worked at the victory, visualised it.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for𒅌 a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.