The statistics do not deceive even though the World Championship has completed only two of the 21 Grand Prix of the 2024 calendar. The debut of Pedro Acosta He is already one of the best in the history of the MotoGP era and although he has been preceded by well-known riders, most of them Spanish, who have already left their mark in his rookie year.
On the current MotoGP grid there are only eight riders who have taken the podium in their rookie year and only three have won MotoGP as rookies.
Pedro Acosta has a good example at home to show that with KTM you can also make ‘machadas’. South African Brad Binder in his rookie year won the Brno race, his third in MotoGP in 2020.
And it is not an easy task, proving that the two-time world champion is not among them. Pecco Bagnaia. He needed 21 Grand Prix to reach his first podium, a second at Misano in 2020, his second year with Pramac Ducati. AND to achieve his first victory in Aragón’21, when he was already a rider for the official Ducati Lenovo team, he specified 42 GGPP. Of course, once he discovered the pot he didn’t stop: 19 wins in the next 48 GGPP.
1
Dani Pedrosa (2006)
At his first Catalunya GP as a MotoGP rider, a banner read: “Rossi is shaking, Dani has arrived.” The three-time champion’s MotoGP debut took place in 2006 as an official Repsol Honda rider in Jerez at the age of 20 years and 178 days. Capirossi dominated the race with a firm hand, 4.375 seconds ahead of Pedrosa. The win came in his fourth GP in Shanghai, a circuit that had just started, after starting from pole and coming back after a bad start to leave his teammate Repsol behind. Honda Nicky Hayden at 1″505. At the age of 20 years and 227 days, he was the youngest Spanish winner at the time.
2
Casey Stoner (2006)
Dani Pedrosa’s contemporary – 15 days apart – is Casey Stoner who also debuted in 2006 in the LCR Honda range. It took him two GPs to win a pole – in Qatar – and in his third MotoGP race he took the podium in Istanbul in second on the satellite Honda after losing the race by just two tenths to Melandri. Success did not come until he rode the official Ducati for the first time at Qatar’07, his 18th GP.
3
Jorge Lorenzo (2008)
Another brilliant debut by a two-time champion rider who went directly to the official Yamaha team was that of Jorge Lorenzo in 2008. In his first GP in Qatar he took pole position – in fact he took first three of the year – and finished second in the race behind the untouchable Casey Stoner who won by 5″323. The first victory came in his third Grand Prix at Estoril by 1″817 over Pedrosa. And on the fourth the big warning came in the form of a big crash in Shanghai.
4
Marc Marquez (2013)
Five years had to pass before another brilliant debut and two world titles under the arm of Marc Márquez signed by the official Repsol Honda team. He managed to break all precocity records that year, except for the youngest podium finisher. He has moved up to first place in his first GP in Qatar after a good fight for second place with God Valentino Rossi -Lorenzo in the lead doing his thing. And the first victory came in Austin, a circuit debuting, in his second GP, undisputed by 1.534 against his teammate Pedrosa. He is 20 years and 63 days old and still a record. The title will be won in the same year at 20 years and 266 days.
5
Fabio Quartararo (2019)
The eternal promise since he won the CEV two years in a row blossomed in his MotoGP rookie year, a category in which he debuted as a Petronas Yamaha rider at 19 years and 322 days. He ran the best of Marc Márquez at the time of victory – five times seconds behind him – but in his seventh GP in Catalonia he rose from his first place to second. Previously, he signed his first pole in the fourth GP in Jerez. Victory will come as an official Yamaha rider at Jerez’2020, the injured Marc Márquez, his 20th GP.
6
Brad Binder (2020)
Unlike his predecessors, the South African debuted in MotoGP at almost 25 years old, but directly with KTM, the brand that was then fifth in the championship. His victory and first podium came at Brno, the third Grand Prix, a dry race where he started seventh and ten laps from the end he led until giving KTM its historic first victory by 5″ 266 against Morbidelli.
7
Jorge Martin (2021)
The Madrid native started his MotoGP career in 2021 with the Pramac Ducati team and in his rookie year he already has wins, poles, podiums and victories. The pole and his first podium, a third behind Quartararo and his teammate Zarco, came second in the races held at Lusail, where they also tested that year. The victory came in his sixth race at the Red Bull Ring, from pole and 1.548 against Mir.
8
Pedro Acosta (2023)
At 19 years and 290 days he became the youngest Spanish MotoGP debutant in history, the fourth, and in Qatar he became the youngest author of the fastest lap in a race and the youngest on his return. young to score (9th ). In Portugal, his second GP, he took his first podium, a third with overtaking two world champions, Marc Márquez and Pecco Bagnaia, the third youngest driver in history (19 years and 304 days). He has until the German GP on July 7 to beat MM93 for the record of youngest winner in history.
Source: La Verdad
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