In the first two rounds of the year, Pedro Acosta had Marc Márquez as one of his opponents in a direct fight – overtaking the six-time MotoGP champion in the main races in both Qatar and Portugal.
Debuting in the premier class, the young Red Bull GasGas Tech3 rider shows himself uninhibited and fearless. This week, he talked about those overtakes on the El Hormiguero program:
– On television it looks easier. Well, he did it with Valentino Rossi, I did it now with him… so, you have to be the party pooper from time to time and give a fight. It’s beautiful, that’s the truth.
Acosta also confided about the overtake on Márquez in Losail: ‘Let’s see, I changed teams, I changed chief mechanics, I changed everything and that was the first real race I did, because the Saturday Sprint race is just a warm-up for positioning yourself for Sunday. So, I arrived, took off my helmet, they approached and whispered in my ear: “Let’s go, you can do it.” And I went and I did it‘.
