Pedro Acosta19 years oldThe kid who has achieved something in 30 months that no rider has ever achieved before, who has won two world championships and who has been hired by a brand of the MotoGP World Championship (KTM) to compete among the kings next season, was completely in front of the microphone. DAZN’s Izaskun Ruiz after leaving the podium. “I promised my team that they wouldn’t see me cry and I’m getting that, but I’m sure that when I leave them in Valencia, when I say goodbye to them, I will lose a lot of tears.” And yes, by the end of the speech he was on the verge of tears.
It all started with something “Pedro Acosta, world champion! Sounds great, right?” “The truth is that I am very happy for myself, of course for my career, for making history, for bringing a world championship to Murcia and Spain, but most of all I am very happy for my family and my team. They managed to bring me here. I had a very bad time last year, “A lot, I didn’t know what happened to me, I didn’t know why I couldn’t win. In fact, many times I thought how good the team is and how bad I am. They were the ones who brought me here, yes.”
A lot of changes
Team, family and hard work. “Yes, of course, and I never stopped going to training for a day! The truth is that in Moto3 everything went well the first time, I won four out of six races or something like that, without noticing. Everything has been easy, but last year, I insist, it was very, very difficult. I’m disappointed. “It is also true that some problems outside the World Cup and the change of coach Adrián Cases affected me a little, but we went through everything together, which is a good thing.”
“Last year, when nothing was going right for me, thinking about how good the team was and how bad I was, I learned a lot, everything. That bad year taught me how to be a champion.”
Pedro Acosta
“The truth is, this year, from reading everything that happened last year, I learned that this is very important! When you don’t win, it’s also very good to be on the podium, fourth or fifth,” continued the ‘Mazarrón shark’. “I was so angry at the 12th seed of Argentina, phew! and that day Remy (Gardner, his close friend) gave me a fight that got my nerves hot and my ass tight. These are the moments to keep learning and, in the end, everything worked out.”
The Murcian pilot continued: “The meaning of being a champion is always the same: calmness, orderliness, team, family, winning when you can win and score, scoring a lot of points.” “As journalists keep telling me, it sounds great to be in the gallery and group with legendary drivers like Valentino Rossi, who have achieved records and achievements since my childhood. Dani Pedrosa, Marc Márquez…I don’t know, it’s a dream. How good, how well everything turned out: 7 victories so far, we still have Qatar and Valencia and 14 podiums in 18 races, super, super good. “I’m happy, very happy.”