Pedro Acosta overtook Jack Miller, Brad Binder, Marc Marqu🍌ez and Francesco Bagnaia in the Portuguese MotoGP.

The teenage rookie has made a splash inside the first two rounds of t🦄he 2024 season, and became the third-youngest rider to finish on the premier class podium in Portimao.

The talk from inside the MotoGP paddock is that Ac♛osta🐈 is an emerging star.

“The rider of the day was Acosta,” Sylvain Guintoli told TꦓNT Sports. “Unreal!”

Michael Laverty added: “He is the gift that MotoGP need𓃲ed right now.

“All t🤡he talk of the aero and the difficulty of passing? He passed 🧸four of the hardest riders to pass - Miller, Binder, Marquez, Bagnaia.

“He made it look easy, it was effortless. Even his interview on the podium. He’s got everything - charisma, speed, style, he does it with panache🅰.

“We’re going to be talking about him a🐠ll season. What a rookie campaign, on the podium already!🦹”

Laverty said about Acosta’s riding style: “Standout. We talked about it in Moto2 and🦹 Moto3, his ability to place the bike where it needs🍨 to be.

“It’s incredible the control he has to go off line, onto the dirty par𒀰t of the track, with the rear skating.

“It was his ability to calcu✤late, to work out how he could do it each time.

🦄“The Pecco one was the bes🅺t one, it meant a lot to him. He had to really think about it, figure out how he could attack.

“Exceptional. Down the inside on the dirty part, the rear skating. He has to give it up, he loses time. His front tyre pressure is goin🔴g through the roof.♏ He dive bombs into Turn 3. The cleverness… he cuts back, leans it back inside, doesn’t give Pecco a chance to come back.

“He wa🧸s lucky with Vinal🔴es’ gearbox issue to get the podium but he earned it.”

Acosta told TNT Sports about his favourite overtake of Sunday: “Pecco. I was spending many laps behind him. I tried it at Turn 1 but I wa🎐s wide. I struggled to stop the bike and said ‘okay…’

“I said ‘🙈I need to catch him again’. The Pecco one was nice because it was the first one in Turn 3.”

Acosta was behind only Jorge Martin and Enea B🍌astianini on Sunday, after finishing seventh in the sprint, which he is still adjusting to.

He said about the grand prix: “It was unbelievable, since the 🐽beginning of the race the bike was much better than [Saturday].

“It’s true that in a long-distance race ꦏwith a fu🌼el tank… it’s more natural for me. I have been racing like this all of my life.

“We tried things in the warm-up to un🅺derstand what we needed in the first lap, and it worked.”