Pedro Acꦕo﷽sta signalled his intention for his first MotoGP race in a private conversation which was overheard by cameras.

The teenager has been tipped for fu🌞tur🐼e stardom as he enters his first premier class season with Tech3 GASGAS.

The first round in Qatar is on March 8.

Acosta shone during parꩲts of the preseason Sepang test and let his plan be known to his closest confidantes in a chat which was captured on camera.

“I thi⭕nk we can be with Brad,” he 💜said about the season-opening race.

“Top 10, let’s say. 10th, 11th,🀅 12th. In this area, yꦐou know?

“It’s not bad for us.

“It’s true, also, that with the pace we are faste𝓡r. “But we miss a bi🏅t with the fast lap.

“But it’s normal enough for this.

“If we improve in this, an❀d we are able to be in Q2, everything is dꦚone.

“If we are in the top 10, we are able to ✱fig⭕ht for something.”

To target Brad Binder - who was KTM’s standout rider last season as he finished fourth in the MotoGP 𝓰standings - is a bold indicator of Acosta’s confidence.

Stꦍill just 19, he is the Moto2 champion and his demand to step into MotoGP this season forced KTM to swiftly find him a bike.

Pol Esparga🎉ro was the unfortunate rider axed to make way for Acosta.

Acosta’s prodigious ability has dr🌠awn comparisons to Marc Marquez who entered MotoGP as the Moto2 champion, then won the premierꦅ title in his rookie year.

KTM motorsports director Pit Beirer said about Acosta: “I saw what all of you guys sawꦦ: He just stepped in and did fantastic things.

“Ev𒁃ery day he became better and better and better during all the six days. Showing a lap time at the end which is two-tenthsཧ faster than the pole position at the end of last year.

“So the level where he steps into this class is really, really high. Everybody talked about him, how many records he had broken in the ot🌠her classes, how young he is. But then it's still of course always interesting to see what actually happens when you move from Moto2 to MotoGP.”