You can look at the data if you want. Or you can have blind faith. Do as you wish but Murcian Pedro Acosta, the youngest Spanish world champion in history, who was recently crowned Moto2 world champion in Malaysia and dominated Moto3 two years ago, has read this carefully to become the youngest rider by next year’s German Grand Prix. Winning a GP in the highest category, something Marc Márquez achieved by occupying the North American throne in 2013 freddie spencer. Many believe that the ‘Mazarrón shark’ will achieve this.

“Chulito Pedro? But what does he say! Pedro is the embodiment of kindness. A piece of holy bread. Humble like few others, he has a habit of suddenly saying what he thinks, what people want. There is no evil But he is 19 years old! “They don’t see it’s a man!”

Pedro Acosta’s father, Pedro Acosta’s grandson, coastal fisherman, purse seine fisherman, bluefish fisherman, sardine fisherman, anchovy fisherman, mackerel fisherman, bonito fisherman and son of herring fisherman Pedro Acosta. Peretujo, his grandfather’s nickname He will set out from the fishing port with his boat named ‘. mazarron (Murcia), of course, where the ‘Mazarrón shark’ lives, the youngest of the existing Pedro Acostas, the pilot who was recently declared the new champion, sorry, two-time world champion. Moto2 title, two big prizes before the end of the season (Qatar and Valencia).

A real phenomenon

50 year old Pedro and his wife mercedes48 years old and her daughters Maria del Mar, 33 and MaryThey are a little worried that the youngest of the family, who is 25 years old, is revolutionizing his own world. Because they were, ‘the shark’, until he became the first rider in the 72-year history of the World Motorcycle Championship to reach the podium in the first four races of his life, that is, a debutant, a rookie, a debutant. The fiercest ‘rookie’ to ever exist (three wins and a second place in Moto3) changed their lives, or at least their conversations.

The truth is that Pedro is an exact copy of his little Pedro, the phenomenon, the ‘shark’, Marc Márquez, another like him explains his dislike of motorcycles. “I took him to the Cartagena track when I went for a run on my motorcycle and he didn’t even pay attention to us when he was four.” One day, Father Pedro came home with a Chinese motorcycle worth 150 euros! He bought it to seduce his son. “And I bought it without knowing it, Mercedes.”

“Is Chulito my Pedro? But what does he say! Pedro is the embodiment of goodness. A piece of holy bread”

Pedro Acosta – Father of two-time world motorcycle champion

When 5-year-old Pedrito came home from school, his eyes lit up when he saw the motorcycle. And my dad bought him a helmet. And he took him to a friend’s field to wander. After a while, the little boy stood in front of his father and said, “Dad, this motorcycle is not going well, it keeps jumping.” Pedro the Great said to him, “Come, come, pull and go on.” But the boy soon stopped again. “No, Dad, things aren’t going well.” Pedro looked at it and saw that the chassis was split in two. “What can you expect, it cost me 150 euros!”

After this mini-experience, the ‘shark’ stopped trusting motorcycles and his father enrolled him in taekwondo. He only went to one class. On the first day he started taekwondo, Pedrito returned home very early. His father asked him, “So what are you doing here, Pedrito?” said. “Dad, I’m not going there to get hit, you can delete me now.” And he deleted it.

But a few weeks later, his father took him back to the Cartagena circuit when the great ‘Pakote’ Paco Mármol opened his driving school. And the ‘shark’ decided to sign up. “On the first day of class, when I saw all the children playing with their knees on the ground, I said to myself, ‘My Pedro’s knee will never touch the ground.’” ‘Pakote’ approached my father and said to him, “stay, after five laps your knees will touch the ground anyway.” And so it happened. “All for you”The fisherman told Mármol who turned this into a project.

Everything in the life of grandson and ‘shark’ Pedro Acosta Jr. happened with his running speed. It’s no wonder, then, that even Marc Márquez admired the kid for his confidence as soon as he saw his Moto3 debut. decision, foresight MM93 It’s shared by the entire World Cup paddock, so much so that everyone believes it, despite Jack Miller and Brad Binder KTM He has one chance to win the major championship, and it’s through Acosta.

Pedro is a mixture of all of these. Everything from Valentino (Rossi), with many details from Marc (Márquez), sometimes reminding us of him Casey (Stoneman) but above all he was Pedro Acosta; “It’s something different,” he says. Jaime AlguersuariHe even wrote a funny book about the ‘Mazarrón shark’.

The first two-time champions.

The first two-time champions. EPC


Alguersuari’s word

“What do Márquez and Acosta have in common? It’s a very simple thing: they don’t know how to hide, I have no friends on the field while I risk my life.” Of course, don’t worry: Pedro would rather have others kill themselves, never risking his life to win. It will take its time“, continues the founder of ‘Solo Moto’. “Pedro is a boa constrictor and can eat a crocodile bigger than him, but yeah, he won’t be stupid enough to go into the water to hunt it, no.”

The two-time world champion and another kid who made the move to MotoGP (the last one was ‘brother’ Alex Márquez) is in no rush to become champion, so maybe that’s why it will happen. It’s great for him to debut with GasGas until he reaches official KTM. It is clear that the biggest interest in the Valencia test, which will be held two days after the season ends in Cheste, will undoubtedly be Ducati and Marc Márquez. ‘Tool’ Greasebut our next hero will undoubtedly be Acosta. GasGas From MotoGP.

There’s a scary truth about what Pedro Acosta’s World Cup appearance means: I repeat, 30 months later, 30 months! With one hand, he won two world championships (Moto3 and Moto2) with a humiliating (to all others) superiority and made the jump to MotoGP. Even the best of the best, Marc Márquez Alentá, couldn’t do it.