In half his first season in Moto3, Pedro Acosta's career and life went from shadow to light. He is the target of all managers, his path, at 17, already seems to be marked out all the way to MotoGP and he is dubbed by his illustrious elders with each comment made. The latest from Jack Miller confirms the excellent impression. The son of the modest fisherman is a big fish in the paddock. In a summer interview, he talks about his references. And above all a…
Peter Acosta has everything it takes to get there, and he can appreciate this situation all the more from the top of his 17 years that nothing was obvious at the very beginning. He remembers : " my father gave me a mini motorbike and straight after he enrolled me in a driving school run by one of his friends. During the first race, after training, they divided us into two groups: fast and slow and I was the last of the slow ones. I cried a lot, but this setback made me want revenge and in a short time I was able to play with the fastest ».
He continues with a special mention: “ then came the CEV and then also the Rookies Cup, I was lucky to never have to finance myself to race, otherwise with the salary of my fisherman father we would not have gone far. But I was winning, and by winning, I was able to advance and level up ". SO Acosta comes from merit and a sector KTM. The brand, moreover, now reminds him of this often, because, obviously, everyone wants to take his nugget.
For the moment, it's working, since the last projects expected from the Spanish prodigy is a rise in Moto2 in 2022 for a period of two years and an arrival, if all goes well, in MotoGP, in 2024... In the meantime, he keeps his freshness of spirit which seduced Jack Miller. In competition, he affirms that he has never had a strategy, but only a lot of commitment and that when his mechanics, at each Grand Prix, ask him how he intends to face the race, the answer is always the same: “ I'm going to come in, have fun for about 45 minutes and see what happens ».
Pedro Acosta: “when Marc Marquez wins he is superior”
Regarding his references, we know that he always cites a Kevin Schwantz who was actually his father's idol. But he also has his own. So Casey Stoner, a little, and a lot of Marc Marquez. Sure Moto.it we learn thus: “ I would take 90% from Marc Marquez and the remaining ten from Casey Stoner or even Kevin Schwantz. I would take almost anything from Márquez » added Acosta « because when he wins, he is superior. It has something different from the rest. We saw him in 125cc and he was already different from the others. Studying it helped me improve my driving ". The eight-time World Champion can therefore be wary when this high representative of the next generation says that he is taking everything from him. Tomorrow, it will perhaps also be its supremacy...
