Herve Poncharal’s 🅷Tech3 team will welcoꦕme Enea Bastianini to its setup in 2025, as Pedro Acosta departs for the factory KTM squad.

Whi🍒le Acosta burst onto the premier class scene earlier this year with two podiums from his first three Grands Prix, its Tech3’s pending arrival, Bastianini, that has actually been victorious this year, winning the British Grand Pr🌟ix at the beginning of August.

“I’m really excited,” Poncharal told TNT Sports ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix l♔ast Sunday. 

“I’ve really been pushing the whole Piereꦕr Mobility Group management to make a quick decision, that was at Mugello. It was clearly when we knew Pedro Acosta was going to๊ move to the factory [KTM] team.

“I wanted to have a strong line-up, and I think Enea [Bastianini] was by fa🐷r the best possibility for us. 

"🐟I know when the planets are aligned he is unbeatable, he’s been showing it in the previous races that h🍸e’s a candidate for the #1 plate.”

Such possibilities g🎐ive Tech3 the pot🌳ential to dream a bit, even if they also bring some pressure.

“Of course, we would love him to bring the #1 plate to our team next year,” Poncharal confessed. 

“But, even without dreaming, we are very honest: now,💮 the pressure is very high on us to give him what he deserves, what he needs, what he’s expecting.

“He’s coming from what is called the best technical package o꧒n the grid (Ducati Desmose🤡dici GP24), and this is very important.

“It’s like in everythi𒀰ng in life, the first touch is very important. So, we hope in Valencia after a few laps he wi🅰ll come down to the box, take off his helmet, and there will be a big smile on his face.”

As for the out-going Acosta, despite a difficult weekend in Austria Poncharal was not holding back in his praise for the two-times World Champ🗹ion, whom he says has been responsible for some progression inside the🦩 Tech3 team this season.

“For sure, he has,” Poncharal repli🌄ed when asked whether Acosta has hel﷽ped progress the team. 

“In terms of interest from the media, we see [them] mu✱ch more than last year, so this is the first big impact and is g⭕ood news.

“Also, everyone who is working in this paddock is not doing it as a job, they’re doing it be꧃cause we have the adrenaline, we have the passion.

"Wh﷽at makes us push, what is fuelling us, is the result, and you can imagine that, when you remember the start of the year, what Pedro brought to the team is unbelievable.

“I think ൲it’s also very important to highlight, to show, Pierer Mobility Group management and the technical department that they are on th💙e right path, although there is still room for improvement. 

"He’s helped the whole project in an incredible way, which was not what we were expec🌼ting a🍌s a rookie.”