“I’ve been told…” Jorge Lorenzo shares story about Pedro Acosta’s excellence

Jorge Lorenzo has offered effusive praise of Pedro Acosta - and shared a back-story which hints at his brilliance.
Pedro Acosta, Moto2 race, Malaysia MotoGP, 12 November
Pedro Acosta, Moto2 race, Malaysia MotoGP, 12 November

Acosta, still only 19, won the Moto2 champ🎃ionship at the weekend in Malaysia.

Heꦚ will step into MotoGP with Tech3 GASGAS next se𒁏ason.

“Pedro Acosta is a tireless worker, a perfectionist,” three-time premier class champion 𝄹Lorenzo told .

“And🐬 when you combine talent with perfectionism aꦆnd discipline you become a beast. 

“I've been told that he gets up at 5am in the morning, goes to the ꦜgym for two hours, and does his first motorcycle session for two to three hours. 

“Eat and another double motorcycle session in the afternoon. He work💜s all ไday.”

Acosta has previ🧜ously detailed how an increased focusꦺ on his physical fitness has aided his career.

He will enter the premier cl𝔍ass with a Moto3 and a Moto2 title under his belt, with big expectations and comparisons to a young Marc Marqueꩲz.

Lorenzo analysed him: "Pedro Acosta is a very fine, very precꦆise rider. 

“He usually likes to angle the curves very quickly to enter the apex very quickly, he turns the bike in a few metres and then puts the bi🧸ke straight. 

“It's riding, more like, to be favourable in Mo💧toGP, especially on a Ducati, you h😼ave to angle the curves.

"Drifting in Moto2 is notꦦ easy at all because t⭕hey have very little power compared to MotoGP. And no electronics. 

“It is a very extreme riding style, getting off the bike a lo♔t. Leaving your butt quite centred on the seat, but moving the entire upper part of the body towards the inside of the curve. 

“A very extreme posture.

"Pedro Acosta in 🤪MotoGP will find a large motorcycle in dimensions, butꦕ perhaps it is the most compact motorcycle. 

“Possibly, the MotoGP bike is a little taller compared to the Moto2 bike, which will allow him to have knee [flexibility] a little more𝔉 open. 

“In the end it is a much more sophisticated motorcycle in terms of aerodynamics or electronics with doublไe the power and 50% more weight.”

Acosta will hop onto a MotoGP bike for the first time on November 28🌊 at the postseason Valencia t🐓est.

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