Here nobody is chasing records, nobody. You talk to the drivers, to all of them, and none of them have in mind doing something that nobody else has done, not even, no, matching something that some legendary driver did. In other words, in the same way that Marc Márquez denies that he wants to overcome the Valentino Rossi’s nine world titles (the Catalan pilot already has eight), Pedro Acosta Nor does it have in mind to become, this Sunday, it can only be this Sunday, the youngest rider in history to win a MotoGP Grand Prix. No way, no way, nobody thinks about that.
When nothing more than starting the World Cup-2024someone asked Márquez if he saw Acosta capable of dethroning him as the youngest rider in history to win a GP in the top category, the eight-time world champion said that “of course I see him capable, because someone who has arrived in MotoGP with the speed, manners, style and determination that Pedro has shown, can achieve whatever he wants in this life.”
Last chance
He ‘Mazarron shark’who was at his side that day, took the pressure off himself and said that these are very different times (Márquez is the youngest winner in history, at 20 years and 63 days, having achieved victory in the USA in 2013) and that, therefore, comparisons cannot be made. Logically, Acosta did not say that he would not be excited, he said that he was not in that race. But he is, of course he is!
The problem is that this weekend he is running out of time, precisely on the circuit where MM93 has achieved more victories (11) and in a Grand Prix that, logically, will be dominated by the Ducati of ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia y Jorge Martin. They are KTM He is already among the best and, even Acosta himself said, after falling in Assen, on the last lap, that he saw his first victory closer than ever. The ‘shark’ will be 20 years and 43 days old on Sunday. That is to say, it will be his last chance to dethrone Márquez, since there will be no more racing until England, on August 4, when he will be 20 years and 71 days old.
Pedro Acosta (GasGas), during the Austin GP, in Texas (USA). / ALEJANDRO CERESUELA
The ‘Shark’ is right to downplay the fact that he has become the youngest ever MotoGP winner, but that doesn’t mean that, having reached the top category and become the whirlwind that he proved to be on his debut, the fans and, mainly, his fans don’t believe (and still do, of course) that he can achieve that record and snatch one of the most prestigious achievements from the elder Márquez.
It must be said. Acosta has been sounding, for years, like the great successor of the Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo y Marc Márquezthat is obvious. But reality shows that his start in the top category has not been, by any means, the same as those three authentic phenomena of speed, of two wheels. Acosta has, in his eight races in MotoGP, two podiums, second in the USA and third in Portugal.
“Given the overwhelming way Pedro (Acosta) has arrived in MotoGP, winning the two previous titles without any opposition, I certainly see him capable of improving my record”
What Pedrosa, Lorenzo and Márquez did was simply impressive. Pedrosa He achieved four podiums in his first eight races, including his first victory, in the fourth race after his debut, in China-2026. Lorenzo He also added four podium finishes in his first eight Grand Prix and one of those was his first victory, in the third round, in Portugal-2008.
And if we review the debut, the first eight dates of Marquezin 2013, you have to stand up, because his numbers, his baptism, was much more than impressive, with seven podiums, including his victory, in the second round of the season, in Austin (Texas)curiously with Pedrosa (2nd) to his right and Lorenzo (3rd), to his left, on the podium in the United States.
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2024-07-02 21:26:29
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