Thomas Luthi ‘trusts’ Pedro Acosta to find the skills he needs to fight for the MotoGP title

Bezecichi won the Thai GP by 5.543 seconds from Acosta, who was the only non-Aprilia rider to finish in the top five. But Bezecichi paid the price as he took the lead in the Buriram Sprint, which Acosta won after receiving a penalty from Ducati rival Marc Marquez.

“I didn’t feel like a winner,” Acosta said after the Buriram Sprint.We inherited the lead in the last corner due to Marquez’s penalty in the last lap. The hosts forced Marquez Acosta to take the lead from the penalty spot.

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Thomas Luthi backs Pedro Acosta to find ‘necessary consistency’ to fight for MotoGP title

Acosta in 2010 Not expected to emerge as a genuine title threat in 2026, Bezcicci is considered the most likely to challenge Marquez, a non-Ducati rider, for the crown. But Luthi believes that it will not be impossible for Acosta to fight for the title as KTM will give everything they can.

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Longtime Moto2 rider Luti Acosta is confident he will find the consistency needed to challenge for the MotoGP title. Acosta is already the Moto3 and Moto2 champion, but his sprint win in Thailand marked his first win of any race in the premier class after 42 rounds.

He says he has been told. Motor sports magazine“At the moment Acosta is the championship leader. Of course there are still 21 more weekends to go. Now it’s important to work hard and stay focused, but KTM will definitely do that.

“I believe it will happen, KTM has the potential, KTM has been working full force on development since the very beginning, and that has not changed until today.

“So they deserve to get good results. Especially in combination with Acosta, KTM is very strong. I believe he will get the necessary consistency this year.”

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Acosta has shown consistent flashes of brilliance in his world championship career thus far. But the performance of the KTM RC16 has often prevented Acosta from securing consecutive results since his first MotoGP campaign for satellite team Tech3 in 2024.

Acosta has been most consistent in MotoGP to date between rounds 12 and 15 and 18 and 22 last year. He secured two podiums among four consecutive top-four finishes and later secured three podiums among five consecutive top-five finishes.

His streak of four top-four finishes last season was five in a row. Acosta was forced to retire from the 2025 San Marino Grand Prix after his chain broke while running in P4 at Misano. The P17 arrived in Japan last year due to KTM’s tire loss problem.