Can KTM cling onto Pedro Acosta long-term? “It goes hand-in-hand with results”
Pol Espargaro, the rౠider replaced by Pedro Acosta, hopes KTM can hꦓold onto their bright young asset

If 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pedro Acosta shines in MotoGP as many experts believe he will, he will attract admiring glances from elsew🌳hꩵere pretty quickly.
Officially th♔e rookie is contracted only f♛or this year but KTM are expected to retain a clause to keep their bright young starlet.
Before the 19-year-old’s fir🅠st race for the Tech3 GASGAS team, there is already pressure on KTM to prove their worth to stop him finding a better bike elsewhereღ.
“I would like him🐓 to stay at KTM,” Pol Es♋pargaro told .
“We can't let a talent like that escape.
“I t꧙hink Pedro also wants to stay, but obviously it goes hand in hand with the results working in the factory KTM team and in the GASGAS team.
“𓆏That one of the two, from GASGAS or KTM, works and that lets him understand that he too can achieve 🍷it.
“Maybe that role is played ꦡby Brad Binder, who is a great rider and who is at his best moment of maturity.
“If he is capable of achieving results, Pedro꧟ can say to himself: 'Okay, if Brad is capable, so can I…'
“Then he can follow in the foওotsteps perhaps in the factory KTM team, if one of the two drops out.
“In that case it would have to be Jack Miller because Brad has ღa contract until 2026, but I would like him to stay.”
Acosta arrives in MotoGP with fanfare not seen since Maܫrc Marquez’s rookie year.
“It has been a long time since I have se✅en 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. ꦕMaybe in Malaysia it was something a little more real than in the other places ꧑because he did three more days of testing than the others.
“When the others arrived he already had som�𓄧�e experience on this circuit.
“He will not have that experience especially in the first races outside of Europe, which is w🌟here he has ridden less.
“So the first races, I think it's going to be a little bit of learning, es🌄pecially understanding the new timing, because it changes a lot from Moto2 to MotoGP.
“The sprint races on Saturdays, the qualifying in the morning, it's a lot o✨f inte𓆉nsity.
“The weekends are very stressful and he will have to adapt to that little by little, but I am convi🥀nced that when the European races arrive and he races on the circuits to which he is more accustomed, the real talent will be seen there.
“Be that as it🔥 may, I think Pedro is a g🌟reat talent and we are going to enjoy it.”
What has impressed Espargaro most ab💃out Acosta during preseason testing?
“The adaptation he has had,” Espargaro answered.
“I am very surprised by his maturꦗity despite 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 accelerat𒆙ion, how he has to adapt to the power, the carbon brakes, the new tyres.
“He has shown great maturity in adꦓapting to all of them.
“There are 🌸many Moto2 riders who arrive and find it very difficult when they put on the new tyre because you have to ride in a very different ꦡway than with the used tyre.
“He did it instantly and we have seen it in the fast🔥 laps.
“The maturity that faces these changes is impressive to m🉐e.
“Acosta has a personal 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 ജmotorcycle and that is very good because it means that all the problems that ꩲare 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 ver💜y far in front of the bike in the front axle.
“That also helps if there ꦕis a problem in the front axle, he is able to solve it very quickly.
“Ped🌜ro has a very peculiar riding style that🍎 is very different and that I like a lot.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering💧 everything from Americ꧃an sports, to football, to F1.