Pedro Acosta is surprising the entire MotoGP paddock. Even rival manufacturers of KTM are paying attention and impressed by the Spanish rookie, who climbed onto the podium for the first time in the premier class at the Portuguese GP.
Max Biaggi, ambassador of Aprilia, spared no praise for the Red Bull GasGas Tech3 rider, stating to Sky Sport 24: ‘It’s beautiful that from time to time something new emerges, something so overwhelming. Acosta started surprising everyone in his first year in Moto3, where he won the World Championship straight away. In Moto2, it took him one more year, while in the premier class, it took him just two races to reach the podium, and he doesn’t fear the more renowned opponents’.
The former rider admitted that he enjoys seeing Acosta succeed on a KTM, hoping to see him fighting at the front again at the Americas GP: ‘I have to say that he is a certainty despite his young age, and we like that because it’s beautiful to see him on a bike that is neither a Ducati, nor a Japanese, nor an Aprilia, but rather a KTM. We hope to see him at the front again in Texas’.