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

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

Pedro Acosta
Pedro Acosta

If 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta shines in MotoGP as many experts believe he will, he will at🔯tract admiring glances from elsewhere pretty quickly.

Officially the rookie is contracted only for this year but KTM are expected to retain a clause to kee𒈔p their bright young starlet.

Before the 19-year-old’s first race for t⛄he Tech3 GASGAS team, there is already pressure on KTM to prove their worth to stop him finding a better bike elsewhere.

“ಌI would like him to stay at KTM,” Pol Espa🀅rgaro told .

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

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

“That one of the two, from GASGAS or KTM, wor🌠ks and that lets him understand that he too can achieve it.

“Maybe that role is played by Brad Binder, 🐈who is a great rider and who is at hisꦕ best moment of maturity.

“If he is capable of achieving results, Pedro can say to him♛self: 'Okay𒊎, if Brad is capable, so can I…'

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

“In t🍰hat case it would have to be Jack Mi🉐ller because Brad has a contract until 2026, but I would like him to stay.”

Acosta arrives in MotoGP with fanfare ꦏnot seen since Marc Marquez’s rooki✱e year.

“It has been a long time𝓰 since I have seen a rider with such talent debut in MotoGP,” said Espargaro, 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 mꦿore days of testing than the others.

“When the others arrived he alrea♏dy had some experience on this circuit.

“He will not 🐈have that experience𒀰 especially in the first races outside of 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 understanding the new timi༒ng, because it changes a lot from Moto2 to ﷺMotoGP.

“The sprint races on S🎀aturdays, the qualifying in the morning, it's a lot of intensiꦇty.

“The weekends are very stressful and he will have to adapt to that little by little, but I am convinced that when the European✤ r🔜aces arrive and he races on the circuits to which he is more accustomed, the real talent will be seen there.

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

What has impressed Espargaro most about Acoꦫsta during preseason testing?

“The adaptation he has had,” Espargaro answered.

“I am very 🔜surprised by his maturity despite how young he is.

“MotoGP is very different from Moto2. It changes a lot: the electronics, all the ga🦹dgets. 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 g⭕reat ma⛎turity in adapting to all of them.

“There are many Moto2 riders who arrive and find it very d😼ifficult when th🍨ey put on the new tyre because you have to ride in a very different way than with the used tyre.

“He did it instantly and we ಌhave seen it in the fꦿast laps.

“Th🌠e maturity that faces these ch🌃anges is impressive to me.

“Acosta has a personal style and I don't like to compare riders with other riders because🅷 each one does things in a very di🏅fferent way.

“We see Pedro riding 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 off the bike, Jorge Martin too.

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

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

“♕Pedro has a very peജculiar riding style that is very different and that I like a lot.”

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