While rider and team are careful to avoid predicting any results, there is no doubt that KTM is delighted to have held on to its rising star Pedro Acosta for a MotoGP debut in 2024.

Wit൩h two titles in his three grand prix seasons, the Spanish teenager has a better record in the junior classes than Valentino Rossi or Marc Marquez. Acosta is also the most eagerly anticipated rookie since the #93 made his premier-class debut in 2013.

Acosta’s value to KTM was ﷽underlined by its efforts to secure an extra MotoGP grid place for 2🍒024 and, when that proved impossible, a subsequent agreement with Pol Espargaro which saw the factory’s former team leader step down to testing and wild-cards.

“Well, I think with Pedro the whole paddock and community agrees that there is a diamond coming up  in th🦩is sport,” Beirer said of Acosta, who will partner Augusto Fernandez at the Red Bull GASGAS team.

“He is a very special rider, a very unique rider who has already broken so many record🦩s in  his  young age.  He  had a&nb𒐪sp; first  test that  was  really strong.

“I  feel the  team  now is&n🐼bsp; in  a good  position  having Augusto and Pedro, I feel it’s a really great base for t✅he future.

“Pedro especially, he will learn  v✃ery qui꧟ckly. I would not be surprised if he gave us some nice highlights in his first MotoGP season.”

But with such expectation comes pressure, 𓃲both for Acosta and the GASGAS/KTM project.

“It’s just an advantage because if you cannot handle pressure then you had better not come to MotoGP, not as a team member but also not as 🌄a rider. We are there to&nbꦉsp; handle this pressure, and that’s  the same also for Pedro,” Beirer said.

“But he will make us better and  stronger for the future, so we all enjoy to have  him and have this positive pressure:ꩲ we want to perform and we wa🥃nt to do a good job for him and I  know he wants to bring great results for us.

“It is a bi𝓰g plus having such a great rider 🍷on our side.”

While much attention is fꦍocussed on Acosta, Beirer i💫s also curious to see what team-mate and fellow Moto2 champion Augusto Fernandez can do in year two.

“To work with Augusto was definitely a big pleasure because he is super-🌌positive and a fighter,” Beirer said.

“Of course he had to learn so ma🎃ny new things. To jump from Moto2, even as a world champion, into  MotoGP it is a diffe🔥rent dimension and you need to learn many things.

“But he was open for everything  and was listening to t▨he team and workin﷽g really hard. He has done really great for a rookie in MotoGP  and I’m looking forward to see what he can do in his second season.