Elf Marc VDS Racing Team’s Arbolino leads Red Bull KTM Ajo’s Acosta by eight points in the Moto2 standings heading to Silve💧rstone this weekend.

But they could both be promoted to MotoGP in 2024 - Ar🔯bolino with Gresini Racing, and Acosta somewhere within KTM’s plans.

Arbolino, 22, told about their rivalry: “I like i🍷t so much. Acosta is one of the drivers, along with me, who has the most talent at the moment! 

“If there is someone I want to win, it is him🐻. This get𝐆s me going and activates me.

“In the last two races, he has been faster, but it was something we knew, because in his first year in Moto2 he was already very fast on those circuits, wit💟h podiums and victory inꦰcluded. 

“While I was not, because I was slower than him.

“However, this year I have achieved podiums where I would not have ♏thought so at the beginning of the seasꦍon.

“Mentally I f🌳eel like a better rider, but I think you have to think like that and believe it before the weekend.

“In some types of corners he is better than me. In the [fast corners]. I am studying a lot to have more speed there. We work with the team to improve that ꦬpoint.”

Arbolino wants to con𒈔tinue battling Acosta next year in MotoGP: “I hop꧃e so. I would like to very much. 

“Acosta is a rider that I consider very st🐟rong ♛and that I want to beat, to prove things to myself.”

Do their battles make each other better?

“I think so,”🍸 Arboli⛦no said. “We are Messi and Ronaldo!

“I want to be the Messi who won the World Cup, but I would like to be the mix o𝐆f both.”

Arbolino was asked about replacing Fabio di Giannanto🦩nio within the Ducati clan next season, and answered: “꧒I hope, I hope so. I have a lot of ambition, but I am very calm mentally. 

“I know that I deserve it and that I don't have to prove anything to anyone, bec♔ause with the work I'm doing it will come. 

“I am focused on t🐲his year, 🎉which I feel is going to be mine, and nothing else.

“There is no lꦛimit. This is what my manager (Carlo Pernat) always tells me. 

“In each call he makes to me, before finishing, he tells me: ‘Tony, remember that y💜ou have n𝓰o limits’.