Pedro Acosta reveals the reason why “the turkey didn’t go to my head”

DAZN premiered a new documentary this Wednesday ‘Pedro Acosta, forced to win’where the two-time Moto3 and Moto2 world champion and since 2024 MotoGP rider visited the town where he was born in Mazarrón, where he told how he was experiencing his meteoric rise.

“Fame is hard, it changed me completely in every way. I live in a town where everyone knows you and, one day, people and people started knocking on the door of my house… No, I’ve been bathing for three years on the beach of Mazarrón. I can’t go. But I think Mazarrón is the reason I didn’t get it. You have to know where I’m going to be and I’m comfortable here and I’ll pay to go here ,” the 19-year-old began to explain.

Acosta He admits to exploring other places to live, but because his Puerto de Mazarrón does not live anywhere: “The subject of Andorra came up, but there are things here that I cannot lose.” And he is your representative Albert Valera who expressed the love he felt for his land: “When he talks to me about Mazarrón he always compares it to the Maldives.”

Valera, also manager in the past of Jorge Lorenzo and in the present of Aleix Espargaró and Jorge Martín, believes that his way of being in the World Cup “is like Jorge Lorenzo in the past, he does and says what he feels in everything time. . The championship needs people like him.”

And the Catalan manager revealed how the family plays a key role from the start: “There are parents who, when their son arrives at the World Cup, they stop adding and start subtracting. In Pedro’s case, with his parents, his sister María or his grandparents, it was quite the opposite. So one of the first decisions he made was to get his sister out of her job to accompany him every Grand Prix: “My sister worked in a warehouse packing tomatoes. I worked night shift and then I went with my grandmother, I didn’t see my sister. There was a time when I saw him on weekends like that. Soon, I was bringing him to races and now he’s bringing my merchandising, helmet design or accompanying me to interviews.

The man from Murcia explained that “I came to the World Cup and I had seven races and I was considered the world champion. They bring you to win, not for what I did, but to win. I lost a lot thing, like enjoying. what I “It’s a small team, they raise you little by little. From there (up) I couldn’t come down. It’s true that if you tell me to make the same decision, I would say the same thing. It’s happening again,” explained Pedro.

The documentary also includes testimonies from his coach and physiotherapist, John Mendozahighlighting that: “He doesn’t like the gym, and he doesn’t like running enough. I had to motivate him by making everything more fun and messing with him because of how competitive he is .”

And in Aki Bawang, his Red Bull KTM team leader in both Moto3 and Moto2, explains that “he had too many expectations and he didn’t know how to control them at the time.” So much so that Acosta himself recognizes that: “Ask yourself if it’s really worth it for you to go through all this, to cry, to let other people cry. Being injured last summer helped me a lot.”

And a femur fracture during motocross training between the Grand Prix in June 2022 meant a 180º turn in his life – “it made a click, it changed,” remembers Pedro Acosta Sr. – to concentrate as much as possible on his daily work with the team: “He came to change the SIM card several times in order not to be distracted and to maintain concentration,” revealed Ajo.

In addition to ‘Pedro Acosta, obliged to win’, fans can now enjoy other titles on the DAZN sports streaming platform such as ‘Martinator, will of iron’, where the story of Jorge Martín’s improvement is discovered; ‘ÁLEX’, where little Márquez shows his most human side and relives the most famous moments of his career; or ‘Test rider: Dani Pedrosa’, where you will discover the important work of the test rider with the help of Pedrosa and KTM himself.