Pedro Acosta is already a✅ talent and making an impact in MotoGP in his first season, with two podium finishes collected already is his first season, including second last t💜ime out in Austin.

With Dani Pedrosa in attendance in a wildcard with the KTM team Acosta wasted no time in slipping in behind a legend of the sport onღဣ track to hone his skills further.

The Red Bull Gas Gas Tech3 riℱder was Impressed with the techniqu💎e ahead of him:

He ඣis super clean, super clean - super smooth  - it’s unbelievable to ride behind him and understand what he is doing , super hap🌼py to spend some laps with him”.

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When asked if he had enjoyed the opportunity to talk to Pedrosa and dꩵebrief it seemed that was still to come:

“Today I have a fulℱl schedule, I don’t have time, any, to talk with the team - for sure in the afternoon to have a chat!”.

Pedrosa was not aware that Acosta planned to follo💫w him on his way to sixth in the session and was immediately impressed with his rookie teammate for the weekend:

“I have no eyes in my back to know what he saw! But I thinkღ it’s good and we are here trying to 𒉰help the team.

“But as you can see - he is the only 🃏KTM  in Q2 so I think he is doing a good,💮 super job.

Pedrosa had made himself known in practice in Jerez in 2023,where he topped the first session and went on to take sixth 🅠in the sprint and seventh in the Sunday race. 

A crash slowed his progress in the second practice sessio🔥n this time around, leaving hi🍃m 14th on Friday.

Brad Binder was all set to go top in the session bef🅷ore he too ended up in the gravel in the closing minutes, that saw the South African just ༒miss out on automatic Q2 progression in eleventh.