Pedro Acosta overtook Jack Mi🌠ller, Brad Binder, Marc Marquez and France🦩sco Bagnaia in the Portuguese MotoGP.

The tee⛦nag♛e rookie has made a splash inside the first two rounds of the 2024 season, and became the third-youngest rider to finish on the premier class podium in Portimao.

The talk 🌌from inside the MotoGP paddock is that Acosta is an emerging star.

“The rider of the day was Acosta,” Sylvain Guintoli told TNT🐠 Sports. “Unreal!”

Michael Laverty added: “He is the g✅ift🌠 that MotoGP needed right now.

“All the talk of the aero and the difficulty of passing? He passed four of the hardest riders to pass - Miller, Binder, Marquez, Bagnaia🍌.

“He made it look easy, it was effortless. Ev💯en his interview on thﷺe podium. He’s got everything - charisma, speed, style, he does it with panache.

“We’re going to b🎐e talking about him all season. What a r🌠ookie campaign, on the podium already!”

Lꦦaverty said about Acosta’s riding style: “Standout. We talked about it in Moto2 and Moto3, his ability🎀 to place the bike where it needs to be.

“It’s incredible the control he has to go off line, onto the dirty part of the track, with t⛎he rear skating.

“It was hi𝔍s ability to calculate, t💟o work out how he could do it each time.

“The Pecco one was the be꧋st one, it meant a lot to him. He had to really think about it, figure 🧔out how he could attack.

“Exceptional. Down the inside on the dirty part, the rear skating. He has to give it up, he loses time. His front tyre pressure is going through the roof. He dive bombs into Turn 3. The cleverness… he cuts back, leans it back inside, doesn’t give Pecco🔴 a chance to come back.

“He was lucky with Vinales’ gearbox issue to get the podium but he earned🍎 it.”

Acosta told TNT Sports about his favourite overtake of Sunday: “Pe🎃cco. I was 🌜spending many laps behind him. I tried it at Turn 1 but I was wide. I struggled to stop the bike and said ‘okay…’

“I said ‘I need to catch him again’. The Pecco one was nice because it was th✨e first one in Turn 3.”

Acosta was behind only Jorge Martin and Enea Bastianini on Sunday, after finish꧋ing seventh in the sprint, which he is still ad꧑justing to.

He said about the grand prix: “It was unbelievable, sinc🦹e the beginning of the race th𒊎e bike was much better than [Saturday].

“It✤’s true that in a long-distance race with a fuel tank… it’s more natural for me. I have been racing like this all of my life.

“We tr💧ied things in the warm-up to understand what we🤪 needed in the first lap, and it worked.”