“I love going behind Pedro (Acosta), I love it, because he drives with that little bit of unconsciousness that we rookies have, and I explain it this way because it reminds me very, very much of my debut in 2013, when I started everything and, yes, I broke a lot of records for precocity.”
The Catalan Marc Márquezeight-time motorcycling world champion, 31 years old, knows what he is saying, as he was one of the first to praise the appearance, at 16 years old, of Pedro Acosta in it motorcycle world championship. And, yesterday, with all the knowledge of the facts, not because he surpassed him in the race, but because he knows what he is talking about, he said that we are facing a young man with the present and the future, with a great future.
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“I said it before starting the World Cup in Qatar: Pedro is going to mark an era. And, yes, he must now take advantage of that start that is so his, so loose, so easy, so daring, to get on the podium and even win races, which he will win,” said MM93, who is the youngest world champion in the premier category. in history, at 20 years and 266 days, dethroning Kenny Roberts. And not only that: the youngest pole position, the youngest fastest lap, the youngest to win in all three categories…and so on several other achievements.
Pedro Acosta celebrates his podium in Portimao. / ALEJANDRO CERESUELA
If anyone is not surprised by what the ‘Mazarrón shark’ is doing, who, at 19 years and 304 days, has become the third youngest driver to get on the podium in the top category, it is Márquez, a friend of youngest of all (19 years and 261 days), the North American and popular Randy Mamola, who achieved it, at the Imatra circuit (Finland). The second was the Argentine Eduardo Salatino (Argentina), aged 19 years and 274 days.
This boy, pure talker, talkative like few others, loquacious like no one else, fun from birth, assures that “when things turn out like they do in Portugal, champagne and party! and, when they don’t turn out that well, to learn, because you can learn from everything.” Acosta says that this is not his thing, it is the team’s thing, everyone’s thing, many people’s thing.
“There are people here who spend the night working on the computer, with my data, my telemetry and, when I get up at seven in the morning, my phone is full of washaps from my engineers telling me what they have seen, how they did it. have analyzed and how we will resolve it in training. “Amazing,” Acosta said yesterday.
“Before the World Championship started, in Qatar, I said that we were facing a driver of the present and the future. Pedro is going to achieve great things”
And then he goes out to the track and, apart from racing hard and well, dancing with his GasGas, which, in reality, is a powerful KTM, he pays attention to the other riders. “It will happen Brad Binder It has been impressive. Beat Marc (Márquez), don’t you see!, but the overtaking of ‘Pecco’ (Bagnaia, the two-time MotoGP champion), has already been a real blast. So much so that, on the first try, I almost fell three times. Then, I took it easy after studying him by going after him.”
Study him? Yes, the guy is investigating his rival. “’Pecco’ is big, he has very long legs, he plays with them, he balances the bike by moving them, he plays a lot with his body, gaining traction when exiting corners. What’s more, he twists his feet in every curve and I have tried to do it at some point in case it helped me and, the truth is, I’m going to have to keep trying because that must help, yes, yes, I’m going to teach him more.
Acosta goes to his. He doesn’t want to be compared to anyone. And much less to be reminded that yesterday, for example, he surpassed his teammate, Augusto Fernández, by more than 28 seconds. And, not only that, he was also ahead of the two official KTM riders, his brand, the Australian Jack Miller and the south african Brad Binder. “Come on, come on, those are very good. It’s been a race, just a race. “This is just the beginning.”
It has only just begun, yes, for everyone, but what we all announced has already happened: Marc Márquez has returned, more little by little than the ‘shark’, who has already knocked down a couple of doors. And he promises to win his first GP one of these weeks. The next event is Austin, Texas, USA, the home of MM93, where he has won seven times.
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