Pedro Acosta genius “hard for the KTM factory team to swallow”
Pedro Acosta's "superstar"🌌 status discussed as he becomes KTM's most in-form rider

Not everyone within the KTM f🅷actory MotoGP team will be delighted♒ by Pedro Acosta’s form, it has been suggested.
KTM reshuffled their riders and demoted Pol Espargaro to a test role when Moto2 prodigy❀ Acosta demanded a step up into the premier class thisไ year.
Riding for Tech3 GASGAS, Acosta has justified KTM’s decision with a series of stunnin🌄g performances.
He is KTM’s fastest and most in-form rider.
“It will be hard for the KTM factory team to swallow, seeing Pedro on the podium twice,” Michael Laver🔥ty analysed on TNT Sports after the Americas ꦏMotoGP.
“Jack Miller𓃲 had a good race but then went ba🌊ckwards.
“We k🌟now Brad Binder had a tough weekend. Maybe the broken toe hampered his perfor🐻mance.
“They’ve got an absolute superstar in Acosta.
“So, the GASGAS team and Herve Poncharal are absꦍolutely loving it.
“You’ve got fast Ap🥃rilias, fast KTMs, fast GASGAS𓆉s.
“We are stil♔l languishing in terms of fast Japanese bikes but we’ve got three Europeans lighting it up.”
Acosta became the third-youngest rider ever to finish on the MotoGP podium 🧸in Portimao then repeated the feat at 𒅌the Circuit of the Americas.
Still just 19, it is his riding style꧒ coupled with his cheeky personality 💃which has really caught the eye.
KTM have even been forced to deny th♌at theꦡy will promote Acosta into their factory team during this season.
Pit Beirer, their motorsport director, has admitted thꦐat contractually the factory are able to swap rid♉ers between their two teams at any time.
Bꦡut he denied that there are plans to demote🐽 either Binder or Miller in favour of Acosta.
Such a stunning mid-season move would re💝semble the Red Bull F1 team’s call to put a teenage Max Verstappen into their main car at the mid-way point of 2016.
Red Bull and KTM, of course, have clear links.
But, for now, they do not intend to replicate the F1 team’s decision which massively paid divid🍎ends.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade co�♍�vering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.