Pedro Acosta overtook Jack Miller, Brad Binder, Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagna🦂ia in the Portuguese MotoGP.

The teenage rookie has made a splash inside the first two ro🍨unds of the 2024 season, and became the thi🦩rd-youngest rider to finish on the premier class podium in Portimao.

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

“The rider of the day was Acosta,” Sylvain Gu🥂intoli told TNT Sports. “Unreal!”

Michae♒l Laverty added: “He is the 🎃gift that MotoGP needed right now.

“All the talk of the aero and the difficulty of passing? He passed four of the hardest riders to pass꧙ - Miller, Binder, Marquez, Bagnaia.

“He made it look easy, it was effortless. Even his interview on the podium. He’s got everything - charisma, speed, style, he does🅺 it with panache.

“We’re going to be talking about him all season. What a rooꦑkie campaign, on the podium already!”

Laverty sa🐈id about Acosta’s riding style: “Standout. We talked about it in Moto2 and Moto3,ﷺ his ability to place the bike where it needs to be.

“It’s iওncredible the control he has to go off line, onto the dirty part of the track, with the rear skating.

“ౠIt was his ability to calculate, to work out how he could do it each time🧜.

“The Pecco one was the best one, it meant a lo𓄧t 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 pressur🅷e is going through the roof. He dive bombs into Turn 3. The cleverness… he cuts back, leans it back inside, doesn’t givℱe Pecco a chance to come back.

“He was lucky with Vi༒nales’ gearbox issue to get the podium but he earned it.”

Acosta told TNT Sports about his favourit✅e overtake of Sunday: “Pecco. 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 aga🥃in’. The Pecco one was nice because it was the first one in Turn 3.”

Acosta was behind 🅠only Jorge Martin and Enea Bastianini on Sunday, after finishing sev𒁏enth in the sprint, which he is still adjusting to.

He said a🎃bout the grand prix: “It was unbelievable, since the beginning of the race the bike was much better than [Saturday].

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

“We tried things in the wa♊rm-up to understand what we needed in the first lap, and it worked.”