A recent video of🍌 Axel Pons prompted shock at how a former motorcycle racer had embarked on somewhat of a religious 💦pilgrimage.

The ex-Moto2 ri🦋der has spent six years walking from Spain to Pakistan, he explained.

His father is Sito Pons, t🃏he former 250cc champion who has been a regular in the MotoGP paddock over the years.

“He began to explain to us that he needed to walk, see the world, understand the 🦹philosophy of life, of re💎ligions and he began his journey,” Sito told .

“Every day he gets up at five in the morning, does meditation and yoga, and starts walk🤪ing.

“You need a lot of disciꦰpline, plus he doesn't go to hotels and only travels with a backpack, with the bare minimum.”

Axel P💎ons’ p🍸lan is to reach Pakistan by foot but he encountered visa issues at the India border.

He has accumulated friends along the way who🥃 have joined his journey, his father said🎶.

“He then decided to go to the Himalayas and sp𒐪ent five months there,” said Sito Pons.

“People began to go looking for him, to take photos and talk to him, a whole story, just what he did not want: he became famous and known there, and now it is happenin🔯g to him here.

“It i𝔍s so surprising and so amazing that it was foreseeable that it was going to go viral in Europe.

“And we have already seen what has happened these days, it has come out everywhere. Fortunat൲ely he is not aware of what is happening here.”

Axel Pons has no phone or social media during his travels but, his father explained, will call home whenever🍃 he is able to connect with the wider world.

H𓆏is father tr🦋avelled to North Macedonia to spend a week in a forest with his son last year.

Sito Pons insisted his son’s barefoot walk is “driven by love to understand the world from the human perspective by knowing different cultures and religion🎃s”.