Can KTM cling onto Pedro Acosta long-term? “It goes hand-in-hand with results”

Pol Espargaro, the rid𓄧er replaced by Pedro Acosta, hopes KTM can hold onto their bright young asset

Pedro Acosta
Pedro Acosta

If 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pedro Acosta shines in MotoGP as many experts believe he will, he will🐟 attract admiring glances from elsewhere pretty quickly.

Officially the rookie i💟s contracted only for this year but KTM are expected to retain a clause to keep their bright young starlet.

Before ജthe 19-year-old’s first race for the Tech3 GASGAS team, there is already pressure on KTM to prove their worth to stopꦛ him finding a better bike elsewhere.

“I would like him to stay at KTM,” Pol Espaꦯrgaro told .

“We can't let a talent like that escape.

“I think Pedro also wants to stay, but obviously it goes hand in hand with the results working in t💖he factory KTM team and in the GASGAS team.

“That one of the two, fღrom GASGAS or KTM, works and that lets him understand that he too can achieve it.

“M🗹aybe that role is played by Brad Binder, who is a great rider and who is at his best moment of maturity.

“If he is capable of achieving results, Pedro can say to himseꦐlf: 'Okay, if Brad is capable, so can I…'

“Then he canꦆ follow iꩵn the footsteps perhaps in the factory KTM team, if one of the two drops out.

“In that case it would have to🍸 be Jack Miller because Brad has a contract until 2026, but I would like him to stay.”

Acosta arrives i🦩n MotoGP with fanfare not seen since Marc Marquez’s rookie year.

“It has been𒁃 a long time since I have seen a rider with such talent debut in MotoGP,” said 𓄧Espargaro, who lost his full-time seat to make room for Acosta.

“I saw him in Malaysia. Maybe in Malaysia it was something a little more real than in the other places because he did three more days of test🌳ing th꧒an the others.

“When the others arrived💫 he 🐎already had some experience on this circuit.

“He will not ha♔ve that experience especially in the first races outside ꦕof Europe, which is where he has ridden less.

“So the first races, I think it's going to be a little bit of learning, especially un꧙derstanding the new timing,⛎ because it changes a lot from Moto2 to MotoGP.

“The sprint races on Saturdays, the qualifying in🐬 the morning, it's a lot of intensౠity.

“The weekend💙s are very stressful and he will have to adapt to that little by little, but I am convinced that when the European races arrive and he races on the circuits to which he is more accustomed, the real talent will beꦺ seen there.

“Be that as it may, I think Pedro is a great tale꧃nt and we are going to enjoy it.”

Wha𒁏t has im✨pressed Espargaro most about Acosta during preseason testing?

“The adaptation he has had,” Espargaro answered.

“I a🌠m very surprised by his maturity despite how young he is.

“MotoGP is very different 🐠from ⛦Moto2. It changes a lot: the electronics, all the gadgets. He has to lower the bike during acceleration, how he has to adapt to the power, the carbon brakes, the new tyres.

“He has shown great maturity in adapting to all🐬 of the💟m.

“There are many Moto2 riders who arrive and find it very difficult when theꦐy put on the new tyre because꧙ you have to ride in a very different way than with the used tyre.

“He did it instantly and we have s🉐een it in the fast lap🎶s.

“The maturity that faces these changes is impressive to🐼 me.

“Acosta has a personal s♛tyle and I don't like to compꦏare riders with other riders because each one does things in a very different way.

“We see Pedro ridinꦯg with his body very far from the motorcycle and that is very good because it means that all the problems that are arising with the motorcycle inside the curve do not affect him in his body and do not cause the weight of the motorcycle to vary, and that is something very interesting.

“I have not seen that from many riders.

“For example, Marc Marquez is a rider who works very well o🍸ff the bike, Jorge Martin too.

“But in his riding style, he also rides very𝓀 far in front of the bike in the front axle.

“That also helps if theꦇre is a problem in the front axle, he is able to solve it very quickly.

“Pedro has a very peculiar riding style 🐭that is very dif🌊ferent and that I like a lot.”

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