Axel Pons is probably mos🌺t-recognisable for his efforts in the Moto2 World Championship, but the Spaniard has recently emerged in a more unlikely location.

Pons — who r𝓡aced 10 seasons of Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 2008–2017, sco꧑ring a best result of sixth in the 2016 Moto2 Italian Grand Prix — has shown up in Pakistan.

A video from the Pakistan Tourism You♚Tube channel, Pons is walking along a road and tells the 🧔people filming him that he’s been walking without shoes for six years.

Another video from the Wahaj Ali.B YouTube channel, he’s sat on a chair and first speaks to a child, then to the person filming him. When asked his name, he gives at first “Isa”, and then clarifies🗹 that his birth name was Axel.

“My story is very long, but I can tell you since I started walking three years ago tಌhat I decided to release all the weight and ൩just get a backpack and walk,” he told the child.

📖“Around 15 months ago when 🐷I felt ready I decided to start walking east, towards the sun. This is what I’ve been doing this last year, and it’s been beautiful.”

🔯Asked where he’s from, Pons responded: “I’m from Allah. But I was born in Barcelona, ▨Spain.”

Pons 🌱said that the transition from racing motorcycles to his new lꩲife was made when he began to question the point of the racing lifestyle.

“At some point, I started to question what is the💃 point of living such a fast life,” he said.

“I started going slower, slower, slower, until now where I’m walking around slowly, ꩵslowly, appreciat𒁃ing the details of life.”

On his on-foot journey from Spain to Asia, Pons added: “It’s nothing special, it came naturally. At some point, nothing else made more sense than to walk and to surrender all the weight that we were accumula🦋ting during our life, and just desire complete union with Allah, or with God.

“This is our way of practicing, by walking.”