It was recently confirmed that Pedro Acosta will make his debut in MotoGP in 2024, becoming a teammate of Augusto Fernández at GasGas Tech3. He will thus enter the top class, a challenge he is not currently focused on – mainly because he has a Moto2 championship to contend for.
In a press conference, the future rookie stated: ‘It was a long way before to have this confirmation. But, anyway, we are here, everything is done. Now I just try to be focused in Moto2, trying to end the championship in the best way possible. And then I’ll try to be focused in MotoGP. But at the end it’s amazing to be in the box with Augusto – we shared a lot of good memories in Moto2 and why not to learn with him in my first year in MotoGP?’.
Despite going through several months of uncertainty about the future, Acosta assured that it didn’t distract him: ‘I said from the beginning I believed in KTM. In the end, we see they really pushed to give the best thing to me. Now I think it’s time to learn, try to be focused in important things. It’s true I wasn’t really focused on that because at the end I have one of the best managers here in the paddock, this was not my job. I was really focused to try to do a good job in Moto2, because from Moto3 I learnt that maybe in the end of the season I lose a little be the focus. Now I learn from the past’.
Aware that it won’t be easy to challenge the other KTM riders, the #37 doesn’t want to think about the future for now: ‘No challenges at the moment. First we have to end the Moto2 season in the best way and then we can start to think in other things. At the end I know that I have fast riders inside the KTM family, we see Brad [Binder] is usually fighting for victories, also Jack [Miller] is fighting for podiums, Augusto is arriving always in the top ten. It will be difficult to fight with them in the beginning, but we will try’.