Can KTM cling onto Pedro Acosta long-term? “It goes hand-in-hand with results”
Pol Espargaro, the rid꧂er 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 ar𒊎e 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 KTM to prove their worth ꦡto stop him finding a better♌ bike elsewhere.
“I would like him to stay at KTM,” Pol Espargaro told ꩲ.
“We can't let a talent like that escape.
“I think Pedro also wants to stay, but obvious🦋ly it go🐬es 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 KTMౠ, works and that lets him understand that he too can achieve it.
“Maybe that role is played by Brad Binder, who is a great rider and who i𝔍s at his best moment of maturity.
“If he is capable of𝓀 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 hav🌸e to be Jack Miller because Brad has a coꦫntract until 2026, but I would like him to stay.”
Acosta arrives in🔥 MotoGP with fanfare not seen since Marc Marquez’s rookie year.
“It has been a long time since I 🌺have seen a rider with such talent debut in MotoGP,” said Espargaro, who lost his full-time seat to make room for Acosta.
“I saw him in Malaysia. Maybe in Malaysia it was something a little more real than in the other places be♈cause he did three more days of testing than the othe💦rs.
“When the others arrived he already had some expe🌸rience on this circuit.
“He will not have that experience especially in the first races outside of Europe, wh♔ich is where he has ridden lesဣs.
“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 Saturdays, the qualifying in the mornin𒁃g, it's a lot of intensity.
“The weekends are very stressful and he will have to adapt to that little by little, but I am convinced th🐷at when the European races arrive and he races on the circuits to which he is more accustomed, the 🦋real talent will be seen there.
“B꧂e that as it may, I think Pedro is a great talent and we are going to enjoy it.”
What has impre🌸ssed Espargaro most about Acosta during preseason testing?
“The adaptation he has had,” Espargaro answered.
“I am very surprised by his matuꦡrity deඣspite 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, howꦰ he has to adapt ܫto the power, the carbon brakes, the new tyres.
“He has shown great maturiꦰty in adapting t꧋o all of them.
“There are many Moto2 riders who arrive and find it very difficult when they put on the new tyre because yo♛u have to ride in a very different way than with the used tyre.
“He did it💜 instantly and we ha🐼ve seen it in the fast laps.
“The maturity that faces these changes i🌠s impressive to me.
“Acosta has a persoℱnal style and I don't like to compare riders with other riders because each 💎one does things in a very different 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 example, 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 t꧒he front axle.
“That also helps if there is a problem in the f❀ront axle, he is able to solve it very quickly.
“Pedro has a ver🍷y peculiar riding style that is very different and that I like a lot.”

James was a sports jo⭕urnalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.