'I didn't feel prepared' - Pedro Acosta confirms rejected 2023 MotoGP offer
The KTM prodigy enjoyed a strong rookie season in Moto2 as he developed int꧃o one of the fastest ♍riders come the end of the season, and as expected, rumours linking him to MotoGP weren’t far away.
After becoming Moto3 world champion as a rookie in 2021, Acosta’s name was already being m♍entioned in some MotoGP circles, which was only heightened when his performance levels saw him challenge for podiums and wins.
While Acosta’s former team-mate Augusto Fernandez has since maꦐde the jump from Moto2 to MotoGP after winning the 2🦄022 title, Acosta has confirmed he could have also made the step to MotoGP.
Quoted by Diario de Jerez, Acosta said: "There was the possibility of making the jump to MotoGP in 2023, but I didn't feel prepared. It's not worth going up for the sake of going up and losingཧ a year of my life doing it and going up to MotoGP.
"I think that everything has its right moment in life and in my case it wasn't for next year. I needꦬ to do well in the category I'm in now befo💧re I feel ready to take the jump."
MotoGP offer comes at an unexpected time…
While you may think that Acosta received his offer to step up to the premier class✃ after securing his first win in Moto2, that was not the case as it came in May when the Spaniard was on a four-race streak without scoring points.
Although his maiden win came at the end of that streak in Mugello, Acosta felt anoth෴er year in Moto2 was needed for his deve♉lopment.
Acosta added: "I had a proposal in May from a MotoGP team but I didn't feel prepared. I was in a phase where I had been four races i🗹n a r🤪ow without scoring, I still hadn't finished on the podium and apart from Le Mans, I hadn't been really competitive.
"F🐓rom that moment things went better with the victory in Mugello, the sixth place in Mont🌳melo, the second place in Germany... apart from Thailand and Malaysia, I finished all the races in the top six, so we are reaching the level we wanted since the beginning of the season."
