Can KTM cling onto Pedro Acosta long-term? “It goes hand-in-hand with results”
Pol Espa꧟rgaro, the rider replaced by Pedro Acosta, hopes KTM can hold onto their bright young asset

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 attract admiring glances from 🔯elsewhere pretty quickly.
Officially the rookie is contracted only for this year but KTM a🍃re expected to retain a clause to keep their bright young starlet.
Before the 19-year-old’s first race for the Tech3 GASGAS team, there is already pressure on K⛎TM 🎶to prove their worth to stop him finding a better bike elsewhere.
“I wouꦯld like him to stay at KTM,” 🃏Pol Espargaro told .
“We can't let a talent like that escape.
“I think Pedro also wants to 🐠stay, b♔ut obviously it 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, works and that lets him understan🐬d that he too can achieve it.
“Maybe that role is played by🌱 Brad Binder, who is a great rider ▨and who is at his best moment of maturity.
“If he isꦐ capable of achieving results, Pedro can say to himself: 'Okay, 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 that case it would have to be Jack Miller because Brad has a contract until 2026, but I w🌃ould like him to stay.”
Acosta arrives in MotoGP with fanfare not seeܫn since Marc Marquez’s rookie year.
“It has been a long time since I have seen a rider with such talent debut in Mot🧸oGP,” said Espargaro, who lost his full-time s🐼eat to make room for Acosta.
“I saw him in Malaysia. Maybe in Malaysia it wa🍸s something a little more real than in the other places because he did three more days of testing than the ဣothers.
“When the others 𝓰arrived he alrea🏅dy had some experience on this circuit.
“He will not have that experience especially in the first races outside of Europ🐓e, which꧋ is where he has ridden less.
“So the first races, I think it's going to be a little bit of learning, especially underst🌠anding the new timing, because it changes a lot from Moto2 to MotoGP.
“The sprint races on Saturdaꦚys, the qualifying in the morning, it's a 𒀰lot of intensity.
“The weekends are very stressful and he will have ♏to adapt to that little by little, but I am convinced that when the European races 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 Acosta durin♕g preseas♛on testing?
“The adaptation he has had,” Espargaro answered.
𓂃“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 gadgets. He has to lower the bike during acceleration, how ๊he has to a꧙dapt to the power, the carbon brakes, the new tyres.
“🌌He has shown great maturity in adapting to all of 🍰them.
“There are many Moto2 riders who arrive and find it very difficult when they put on the new tyre because you have to ride in a very differentꦿ way than with the used tyre.
“He did it instantly and we have seen it 🦄in the fast laps.
“The maturity that faces these cha🌺nges is impr🌞essive 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 differen🦂t 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 exa🐓mple, 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 fro♚nt axle.
“That also helps if there is a problem in 🤪the front axle🌳, he is able to solve it very quickly.
“Pedro h🍒as a very peculiar riding style that is very different and that I like a lo🐓t.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky ꩲSports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to💝 F1.