Pedro Acosta accepted the challenge of Marc Marquez after the reigning world champion predicted the KTM star would ‘definitely’ fight for the championship after being given a bike capable of doing so.
The 21-year-old has continued to impress throughout the campaign, third in the premier class, but is yet to secure his son’s Grand Prix victory.
Does Pedro Acosta have the right attitude or is he too aggressive?
He was presented on many occasions, but his sub-optimal performance KTM Prototypes have proven to be often the deciding factor.
Moving to the factory Ducati The team is said to be arriving. AcostaIt is widely expected that he will be able to stretch his legs on a machine that has seen him fight for victory every season at the weekend.
The 33-year-old has passed judgment on his talent ahead of his partnership with the current KTM star at Ducati next year. Marquez told reporters that Acosta would ‘definitely’ fight for world titles in the future.
Pedro Acosta responded to Marc Marquez’s World Championship question
During the interview with AS notebook Before this weekend Hungarian Grand PrixMotoGP journalist Mela Cherkoles was buried Marquez Words from last week to Acosta, who quickly accepted the challenge.
Will Pedro Acosta beat Marc Marquez at Ducati next year?
“I hope so, but that won’t change anything for me from Mugello to this week,” he replied. “I hope that day comes, every Sunday I hope that I don’t have to make excuses for myself.
“At the end of the day, that praise is all well and good, but it doesn’t change anything from last week to this one. I’m in my own psychological battle with myself.”
He explained how he was doing in his comments to KTM, which came into the winter break, showing the biggest improvement in the number of accidents in 2025.
“I’m doing everything they’re asking me to do. I’m not struggling, and I’m being more consistent than last year,” he added.
“I saw last week that I had the same points I had in 12 races and now we’re seventh. You can’t say we’re not trying as hard as we can.”
Pedro Acosta thinks that people are now ‘getting to know each other’ because it’s better for the results
Acosta’s low number of accidents may indicate that he is more mature in the premier class. In an interview with a Spanish newspaper, he talked about how learning to accept that he can’t win every race has helped his overall consistency in the sport.
“This will finally help me,” he continued. “In MotoGP, I think the pace was always more or less the same, but I couldn’t finish the job mainly because of the crash.
“And this year, compared to last year, the thing that people notice the most is that I’m not struggling, I’ve more or less learned to live in sixth when nothing else is working.
It might not seem like it, but you pick up points here and there… and by the end of the year, you’ve earned a lot. Hope all those points will be helpful for me.
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