Pedro Acosta genius “hard for the KTM factory team to swallow”
Pedro Acosta's "superstar" s🌞tatus discussed as he becomes KTM's most in-form rider

Not everyone within the KTM factory MotoGP team will be delighted by Pedro Acosta’s form, it has been suggesteꦆd.
KTM reshuffled their riders and demoted Pol Espargaro to a test role when Moto2 prodigy Acosta demanded a step up into the premier clas🐻s this year.
Riding for Tech3 GASGAS, Acosta has justified KTM’s decision🌌 with a series of stunning performances.
He is KTM’s fastest and most in-form rider.
“It will be hard for the KTM fac🐼tory team to swallow, seeing Pedro on the podium twice,” Michael Laverty analysed on TNT Sports after the Americas MotoGP.
“Jack Miller had a gꦚood race but then went backwards🍃.
“We know Brad Binder had a tough weekend. Maybe the broken toe hampered his perfo𒊎♔rmance.
“They’ve got an absolute superstar in Acosta.
“So, the GASGAS tꦦeam and Herve Poncharal are absolutely loving it.
“You’ve g🏅ot fast Aprilias, fast KTMs, fast GASGASs.
“We are still languishing in terms of fast Japane🅰se bikes but we’ve got three Europeans lighting it up.♔”
Acosta became the third-youngest rider ever toᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ finish on the MotoGP podium in Portimao then repeated the feat at the Circuit of the America🦹s.
Stil✃l just 19, it is his riding style coupled with his cheeky personality which has really caught the eye.
KTM have even been forced to de🦄ny that they will promote Acosta into their factory team during this seas🔥on.
P🙈it Beirer, their motorsport director, has admitted that contractually the factory are able to swap riders between their two teams at any time.
But he denied that there are plans to demote eithe𒐪r Binder or Miller in favour of Acosta.
Such a stunning mid-season move would resemble the Red Bull F1 team’s call to put a teenage Max Verstappen into👍 their main car at the mid-way point of 2016.
Red Bull and KTM, of course, have clear links.
But, for now, they do not intend to replicate the F1 team’s decision which massively paid di𒆙vidends.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports🤡, to football, to F1.