He defined himself as a shy child when he burst into the Moto3 World Championship in 2021 at the age of 16, with his thin frame and his restless eyes examining everything and in just three years we have seen he grew up. Pedro Acosta by leaps and bounds. And he receives the same request everywhere: “don’t change Peter, keep being who you are.” Fresh, lively, witty and on the track he is not a harmless blue shark, like the color of his mascot, he is a great and true white shark destined to become a real ‘boss’ in the MotoGP waters over time.
The fact that motorcycles in Spain continue to be ‘closed’ means that Pedro Acosta is a great unknown to the general public despite the exploits he has already begun to perform and the disarming novelty of his way of being. After his two world titles, which were still broadcast free of charge, Marc Márquez He is widely known and continues to be the most popular driver in our country. A few months ago in an interview with Speedweek, Pedro himself was unequivocal in saying that “we have a problem: people have to pay in many countries to watch races on television. It’s not good. How are we going to make people aware of MotoGP today if we don’t give everyone a chance to see it?” asked the young man from Murcia.
So it’s time to contribute to Acosta’s cause with 10 facts you need to know about the new two-time world champion who seeks to break all written records.
1
A family dedicated to fishing
He shares humble origins with fellow MotoGP rider Maverick Viñales and three generations of a family dedicated to fishing. The name Pedro Acosta is shared by the grandfather, father and the famous grandson. Acosta Sr. drew the first logo for the pilot, so he is known as ‘El Tiburón de Mazarrón’. And one of his mechanics who was with him in the Moto3 world champion, Andy Cortés, managed to enter the shark’s body at the Sepang festival.
2
He almost went home twice
Although he is now considered ‘the next big MotoGP star’ he almost had to go home on several occasions and devote himself to fishing with his father at Pesquero Peretujo. The first was after the first year in FIM CEV Repsol (2018) when he was 13 years old and he was left without a team and the exit attended the tests for the Red Bull Rookies Cup for 2019. The second was a week after signing for the Moto3 debut in 2021 with PrüstelGP associated with his CEV team the MT-Foundation 77. The agreement between Florian Prüstel and Jordi Gatell did not materialize and he was in no man’s land for three months. His manager at the time Albert Valera He had to make contact and, although for Aki Ajo he was not the main option, after a series of moves he ended up signing for Ajo Motorsport and the rest is history. “Albert gave me life when no one gave me and it’s true that the real story is that he didn’t want to take me, that no one said that, (Jorge) Lorenzo was with him,” said Pedro.
3
They don’t transfer it from Murcia
Your manager Albert Valera and most of the drivers he represents (Aleix Espargaró, Jorge Martín…) live in Andorra and a few years ago he proposed the “amazing idea of going to Andorra”. And when he reached the age of 18, he said clearly: “I’m not moving from my house. I’m not saying this because the country is ugly, it’s very beautiful and very cool, but I’m too depressed to not see the sun.” and the beach that I couldn’t stand anymore. I was there for four days and I don’t want anymore.” Although he longs to be free, he will not leave the home of his parents, Mercedes and Pedro, nor his grandparents, María and Pedro. Pedro is a very familiar boy, very much one with himself. “From my house I see the beach and I look at the beach from twenty meters away and that’s what I like. In Andorra I will have a very bad time, I would rather pay!”
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Aki Ajo, a main character
the finnish Aki Bawang has earned a well-deserved reputation as a good manager of drivers and teams with him Garlic Motorsport associated with Red Bull and KTM. There are already ten world titles in the smaller categories, five in 125cc and Moto3 and five more in Moto2. Marc Márquez He won his first world title in 125cc with him in 2010 and with Pedro he signed his masterpiece, he won both titles in the small categories. The secret of the ‘Iceman’ is to put the carrot and stick to bring down the ‘soufflé’. “We have to keep both feet on the ground. Our pilots have to take every step with patience.” Pedro remembers receiving only two fights in these three years, one in 2021 where he gave him strength when he was losing his mind due to too much praise, and another in 2022 to stabilize him when the things are not good.
5
Remy Gardner, his great friend
Even six years of life separate them from the friendly battle in between Remy Gardner and Pedro Acosta, made during his time at Ajo Motorsport in 2021, one in the Moto2 team and the other in the Moto3 team, continues despite the fact that the Australian, 2021 Moto2 champion, is now in the World Superbike team and is on vacation together in a boat with their respective partners Clara and Desiree. A WhatsApp from Remy wherever he is is the word of the law. “In 2022 Remy was pushing, he made me fight in Argentina, the veins in his neck swelled and everything, my ass was too tight, but he was right,” he told DAZN. In the past Riccardo Rossi He is another one of his pillars and now he has a driver’s license Alex Escrig He was with her in the van going to training.
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His father and sister are part of his team
Starting this year Pedro Acosta Dad delegated duties to Peretujo, still owned by the family, but after parting ways with ‘Pakote’, who had been his mentor since he was little and right-hand man until last winter, there were change in his environment. He was accompanied by Acosta Sr. this year in almost every Grand Prix, as well as his sister Miriam, four years older. As a long-suffering mother, Mercedes does not usually go to races, but unlike Portimao’21, when she won Moto3, this time she did not miss her Moto2 Grand Prix crown in Sepang. The eldest in the Acosta-Sánchez family, Maria Mar, 31, is a businesswoman and mother of little Mar.
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Augusto Fernández, Moto2 and MotoGP teammates
Although there was talk that Aki Ajo would build a MotoGP team for him in 2024, in the end Dorna’s refusal to give up the places he had kept from Suzuki’s fear of KTM failed the operation and began Mattighofen farce in having five riders contracted for 2024 and only four motorcycles. Finally, Solomon decided to bring Pol Espargaró down to try out the roles and set up the couple at the GasGas Factory. Augusto Fernández-Pedro Acosta who are already teammates in Red Bull KTM Ajo Moto2 in 2022. Again Augusto will snatch the 37 from him coming earlier in MotoGP and we will have to wait for the Cheste test on 28-N to know what number he will race in MotoGP.
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A work-obsessed perfectionist
In 2022, many changes in his personal team, the end of his path with his mentor Paco Mármol. And he had to rely on “the Pedro who looked for someone else to push him forward because no matter how much you want it, you need a push from someone, so I dedicate this title to Pedro who gave his training to the balls this year,” he said in Sepang. His new coach also knew him when he was young, Adrian Caseand their days start at 7 a.m. doing cardio in the gym and after breakfast, on the circuit, especially in ‘Motor Fortune’ where he does the cone and balance technique. In Requena they saw him doing motocross, but it was at the Mora d’Ebre circuit where he met his people from Ajo Motorsport with Tomás Foncea at the helm. “I’ll make the most of the winter with them. I know our paths will cross again soon,” he conspired.
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Leave a family at Ajo Motorsport
It has been three years of his life at Ajo Motorsport where he came as a child and left as a man, but with the vocation not to lose the bonds created. Aki Ajo is the team’s main team and his son Niklas, a former rider, is at his right hand – he is also Deniz Oncu’s technical chief in Moto3 – but there are many Spanish members in the Finn’s team. Tomás Foncea is the coordinator of the Moto2 and Moto3 team and Pedro’s 2023 team is formed by Alberto Lotti as chief mechanic, Francesco Cavalli as data engineer and mechanics Adrián Jiménez and Cesar Ruano. But with the mechanics on the other side of the box, those of Albert Arenas, Jesús Domínguez, Borja Moreno and Pol Chavarria, there is a very close relationship.
10
The Triple Crown is within reach
In the early years of the World Championship, born in 1949, there were more categories in the program and it was shortened to the three as we know it today since 1990. Throughout history, there have been 125cc/Moto3 and 250cc/Moto2 champions: Carlo Ubbiali ( 125cc’51 and 250cc’56), Phil Read (125cc’68 and 250cc’64), Luca Cadalora (125cc’86 and 250cc’91), Loris Capirossi (125cc’90 and 250cc’98), Valentino Rossi (125cc’ 97 and 250cc’99), Manuel Poggiali (125cc’01 and 250cc’03), Dani Pedrosa (125cc’03 and 250cc’04), Marc Márquez (125cc’10 and Moto2’12), Àlex Márquez (Moto2 ’14 and Moto2’19) and Pedro Acosta (Moto3’21 and Moto2’23). Only Phil Read, Valentino Rossi and Marc Márquez They later signed the Triple Crown with the 500cc/MotoGP title that Pedro was chasing.
Source: La Verdad
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