Fabio Quartararo exclusive: Pedro Acosta “one of the most talented riders I’ve seen”

Quartararo on Acosta: “He can be on the [champio𝓡nship] podium at the end of the season… He’s one of the most talented riders I have ever seen”

Fabio Quartararo, Pedro Acosta
Fabio Quartararo, Pedro Acosta

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Quartararo expects 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pedro Acosta to exceed his own 2019 rookie achievements and believes he can fight for the top three in this year’s MotoGP standings.

The Frenchman hounded a pre-arm injury Marc🔯 Marquez for victories on his way to fifth overall, with seven podiums, as a🅠 satellite Petronas Yamaha rider in his debut campaign.

Acost🥀a is also currently fifth in the world championship, for GASGAS Tech3, with two grand prix podiums.

But during an interview with wuqian0821.com at the start of the Barcelona-Mugello double header, Quartararo emphasise💦d that he was only twelfth in the standings by round 6, taking his first MotoGP podium next tim💛e out.

“In th𝓰e same moment as now in the championshipඣ in my rookie year, I was much more far. So to be honest I think he can really be... I will tell you, on the [championship] podium at the end of the season.

“I think he’s one of the most talented riders I have ever seen. I'm not super old, but at least fr꧟om what I see and the way he's riding.”

Pressed further on 🌄what impresses him most about Acosta, the 11-time 🧸MotoGP race winner and 2021 world champion replied:

“The facility he has to adapt to everything. The braking he is making in MotoGP right now is crazy! Like the overtake he did to Marc in Portꦛimao in Turn 1.

“It’s difficult to understand the front brakes of the MotoGP. And for him it was like natural, the way 🧜he slides. 

"He's a really talented rider and I think you can see that the way he rides is really free and he's enjoyi✨ng it.”

Fabio Quartararo, Aleix Espargaro
Fabio Quartararo, Aleix Espargaro

Aleix Espargaro “an example”: “Announced he’d retire, then was P1”

A rider at the opposite end of his MotoGP career to Acosta is Aleix Espargaro, who will retire from full🍌-time racing at the end of this season.

Quartararo is still only 25, and recently re-signed with Yamaha foꦡr 2025 and 2026, but what is his long-term 🉐plan?

“I don't pla🅺n to stay until 35,” Quar🍰tararo explained.

“It's already more than 20 years that ꦆI've been on a motorcycle. Even if 🃏it's not on a MotoGP bike. I've done it all my life.

“Maybe I’ll arrive to 30 and say I want to cont🌼inue more and more and more!

“But to be honest all tಌhe travel is something that I don't really like.

“I think it’s important to know when to [stop].

“What Aleix has done, to say he will retire and the next 𒉰day finishes P1💃 - I will say ‘chapeau’ to him and I think he is an example.

“And for me this is the reason I believe that I will no🀅t continue unti🦩l 35 years old.”

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