Pedro Acosta is facing a year of changes. New category, team, bike, preparation… Therefore, the fastest rider in history to win two World Championships, after the experience he lived when he went from Moto3 to Moto2, is With your feet on the ground”. This was reiterated yesterday in a day that he shared with the Automotive students of the Universae Higher Institute of Vocational Training, to whom he taught a mechanics class in the classrooms where they are studying studies that in the not too distant future will project them into the world of work. and, why not, to integrate into the structure of a World Motorcycle Championship team.
‘El Tiburón’, who during his visit was accompanied at all times by Pedro Guerrero, technical director of Automotive at Universae, and Ricardo Fernández, head of communication for the training company, has learned in his still short career in the elite that ” putting pressure on yourself is not good”, and therefore, in his first year in MotoGP with a GasGas Tech3 Racing KTM, he considers it as “learning”, especially at the beginning with the challenge of “being competitive from the middle of the season or at the end”.
To achieve those realistic goals for the only rookie in 2024 in the premier class, Acosta has been working especially during the winter putting “an emphasis on physical training, because I have always been very thin, and I need a physique to be at the level,” he said. . And he has especially focused “on getting bigger on top, more than on gaining weight, because if you see drivers like Jorge Martín, Brack Binder or Jack Miller, they are like a door too big and I am still very skinny,” commented the 19-year-old pilot.
It will be a year of changes for Acosta, with “new things, new people and with a motorcycle at a high technical level, very different from Moto2. That is why we have no objectives or pressure, which is something I have learned years ago,” he commented. , but there is also the novelty of the sprint races that are held on Saturdays with twelve laps, half of the Sunday grand prix, of which I still “have no opinion because I have only gotten on the bike for one day and I “I’ve come home. The most positive thing is that I will spend more time on a motorcycle during the race weekend and it will be positive to evolve.”
Work begins in Austria
To get to know the technical team that will be at your service better, on the 14th you will go to Austria to live a week “of coexistence”, although not everything will be new because “I have managed to bring people who have been with me the last two years in Moto2.” Then, on January 28, he will travel to Malaysia to face the first official tests of the season in early February, where he will be able to learn more about the new motorcycle he will ride.
Acosta also now feels less pressure when he goes out and walks through Mazarrón or Murcia: “Everything has become normal. After winning my first World Cup, it was all crazy, I went from being known by my father and mother to everyone knowing me. The world recognized me on the street. By staying in Murcia, at home, people have normalized it. Now walking through the center of Murcia is easier. I take one, two or as many photos as I need, but it’s not like before. I am comfortable at home and in Murcia and that is why I am not going to change a place that welcomes and protects you so much,” he explained.
Although fighting for the MotoGP title is something that the Murcian still sees far away, he is clear that this season “all eyes will be on the World Cup winner, Pecco Bagnaia”, but he also considers that “Jorge Martín or Marc Márquez will be at a high level The problem is that it is a category in which there is very little difference and at a moment you go from first to fifteenth place and you find yourself out of the points. I’ll have to go easy and learn from them“he concluded.
2024-01-10 07:36:14
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