Valentino Rossi ha🅘s assessed the highs and lows in the rookie year of Pedro Acosta.

Acosta exꦡploded into MotoGP at the start of the year with two podiums in his first three grands prix.

However, the mid-way par🌠t of the season saw Acosta crash more frequen🍸tly as his KTM lacked performance.

In Australia, a fall in the sprint race resulted in a shoulder injury which ruled Acosta o�💜�ut of the grand prix.

"The KTM seems to me to be in quite a bit of difficulty this year,” Ros🐈si analysed earlier this year for .

“And it's 🐷worse than last year compared to the Ducati, even with riders with great experience on that bike like Brad Binder, so it'♐s not easy for a rookie.

“He arrived full, rightly so, but afterwards he started [crashing], va🀅rious and quite strong.

“The blows with the MotoGP are felt, they ar📖e felt, it's🃏 something else, you hurt yourself more…

“This made him 'break the gas' a bit. But in my👍 opinion he remains very strong and if KTM manages to be closer to D♊ucati he will be there in front.”

Acosta’s early-season brilliance sa🍸w KTM make𝓡 the quick decision to promote him into their factory team, in Jack Miller’s place, for 2025.

Although he hasn’t yet vindicated Jorge Lorenzo’s prediction from earlier this season that he would win a grand prix, Acosta has impressওed hugely.

He and Binder have consisten🌳tly been the top non-Du🍬cati riders this year.