Pedro Acosta signalled his intention for✨ his first MotoGP race in a private conversation which was overheard by cameꦆras.

The teenager has been ti𒁃🌳pped for future stardom as he enters his first premier class season with Tech3 GASGAS.

The first round in Qatar is on March 8.

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

“I think we ca☂n be with Brad,” he said about the seaꦿson-opening race.

“Top 10, let’s say. 10th, 11꧙th, 12th. In this area, you know?

“It’s not bad for us.

“It’s true, also, ꦗthat with the pace we are faster. “But we miss a bit with the fas🌊t lap.

“But it’s normal enough for this.

“If we improve in this, and we are able to be 🐭in Q2, ever🅠ything is done.

“I🏅f we are in the t♊op 10, we are able to fight for something.”

To target Brad Binder - who was KTM’s standout rider last season as he finished fou🧸rth in the M🌱otoGP standings - is a bold indicator of Acosta’s confidence.

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

Pol Espargaro was the unfortunate rider axed to mඣake way for Acosta.

Acosta’s prodigious ability has drawn comparisons to Marc Marquez who entered MotoGP as the Moto2 champion, then won the premier title in his rookie yeಌar.

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

“Every day he became better and better and better during all the six days. Showing a lap time at the end which is two-tenths faste๊𝓀r 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 other 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.”