With the arrival of the long summer vacation in July, the pilot market will begin moving at three-week intervals Italian GP next weekend and Holland which will be held in the last weekend of June, when the rules of the pilot movement for 2024 should be more or less defined… And one of the main characters, if not the main character, of the ‘market’ that this is Pedro Acosta.
In the KTM ranks in Moto2 For now, according to the manager of the MotoGP team, the Austrian brand is waiting for Acosta to tell them what his intentions are for 2024… “At the end of June he has to give us an answer on what he wants to do. in 2024”, he commented in a recent interview Francesco Guidotti.
Acosta will have to let KTM know if he wants to repeat a year in Moto2 or if he thinks he is ready for MotoGP. If you haven’t changed your mind in recent weeks, your ambition is very clear: to jump to the ‘first division’; win or not win the title.
Doing so with the Moto2 title in his pocket would be the ‘sensible’ thing to do, especially considering Pedro’s age, 19, but market dynamics don’t allow him to make a decision based on his result at the end of the season. The decision was based on feelings, feeling that he was ready to enter the MotoGP cage.
From here it is KTM that must make a move. By contract, and by recognizing the Austrian brand for the support that allowed him to leave his native Mazarrón and get to where he is -with the Moto3 World Title-, Acosta’s first option to switch to MotoGP give it up. .KTM’s hand.
If KTM doesn’t agree with Pedro’s decision, free him to do it with another brand. If, on the other hand, KTM’s answer is “let’s go”, it will have to find accommodation in one of its motorcycles. And considering that now he has four bikes in MotoGP and three of them are committed by contract until 2025, all will go to Augusto Fernández, the only KTM rider in MotoGP whose contract will expire at the end of this season.
Get off at August of GasGas [marca del grupo KTM] of Team Tech 3 to step up to Pedro means removing the 2022 Moto2 world champion after his first season in MotoGP. A move that only makes sense if KTM is convinced that Acosta’s projection is greater than that Fernandez.
“It’s a situation that disturbs me,” he explained to Le Mans Herve Poncharal, Tech 3 team manager where Fernández militates. “Augusto does his job as a rookie in MotoGP flawlessly, flawlessly. And when a rider does it like Augusto does, he deserves the chance of a second year. On the other hand, doing Acosta also has to do what he has to do properly. do, and I think he’s ready to jump into MotoGP. It’s a very difficult situation.”
He Chairman of Pierer Group where KTM, GasGas and other brands belong, Stephen Pierrepushing for Acosta to stay one more year in Moto2 so he can be included in one of its structures when contracts expire in 2025 Brad Binder, Jack Miller and Pol Espargaró. A Solomonic solution that, however, did not fit into Peter’s plans.
In the Le Mans interview, Guidotti opened the door for an unexpected and surprising third option. “We don’t want to force a rider to stay in Moto2 if he doesn’t want to. The solution could be for KTM to have more bikes in MotoGP. Why not, Ducati has eight. Why can’t we have two more?”
This is how things are on the eve of Italian GP, that makes the future of Pedro Acosta, and therefore also of Augusto Fernández, one of the hot topics in Mugello next weekend, and one that will undoubtedly be the topic in Italy. If it will be public or in the offices, we will tell you.
Source: La Verdad
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