The pilot from Mazarrón will cover the first kilometers of 2023 in the Winter Test training days
It’s ten o’clock in the morning at the Cartagena circuit. The temperature is worthy of the month of April, with almost twenty degrees and without a cloud in the sky. Although the drivers can now take to the track, there are still some closed boxes. Among them, that of one of the athletes who arouses the most expectations: Pedro Acosta, Moto3 World Champion in 2021 and who will race in Moto2 for the second consecutive season.
Some sounds of motorcycles with different displacements are starting to be heard, from the junior category to MotoE and from Moto3 to the almighty MotoGP. In Cartagena, where world-class drivers have filmed and where Michael Schumacher, seven-time Formula 1 world champion, had his adventures with two-wheelers, the decibels are starting to rise.
Some fans take their vehicles to a hill near the track to enjoy watching their idols, which they usually see on television, roll at full speed. The asphalt gets even hotter and it is then, at 10:25 am, when the roller blind on box 21 finally goes up.
Still in short sleeves, the ‘Shark of Mazarrón’ visited LAVERDAD before getting on a motorcycle for the first time in 2023, with two and a half months to go before the World Cup kicks off on March 26 at Portugal’s Portimão circuit.
“You have to train for the season. It’s a pity there’s only one circuit in the Murcia region and we all have to adapt to what’s there,” the Mazarrón rider lamented a few minutes before he left the Red Bull KTM Ajo race. suit on and the engine started roaring. .
He’s been able to enjoy the holidays at home and the weather has helped a lot: “We’ve been wearing short sleeves for a winter,” he remarked between smiles. However, he also made it clear that “little by little you have to start focusing and thinking like a World Cup driver.”
Asked about the objectives in what will be his second consecutive season in Moto2, which should serve as his consolidation, he said: “There are no expectations for this year. Let’s see how it starts, we go little by little and without stress and it will be fine.”
Acosta will be in Cartagena until tomorrow for the winter tests, which are already common in the city at the beginning of the year and are usually very well received by highly recognizable drivers from all over the world.
Highly recognizable personalities from the motorcycle world passed through the paddock of the Cartagena Circuit yesterday. One of the most important was Tito Rabat, Moto2 World Champion in 2014 with the best score in history. He took advantage of his stay to prepare his debut in the MotoE World Championship after becoming Spanish champion last year.
Around eleven o’clock in the morning, the experienced French pilot Johann Zarco also started firing. Fifteen MotoGP podiums and a Moto2 World Championship later, the number 5 put his brand new Ducati to the test with some long rides.
Much younger than him is Máximo Martínez Quiles from Murcia, only 14 years old and who also dared to shoot in Cartagena. After finishing third in the 2022 edition of the MotoGP Rookies Cup, he started to compete with much more experienced and award-winning riders. The big absentee was Fermín Aldeguer. The pilot of La Ñora is in Italy and will be filmed next Saturday
The session ended at 6pm, the first to take place until tomorrow. The practice sessions, behind closed doors, crowned the Polish Moto2 rider Biesiekirski with the best time on Thursday. Cardelus and Zarco, together with him, were the only ones who were able to complete in 1.34. There was no accident and only a few were off the track.
Source: La Verdad
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