Young motorcycle prodigy Pedro Acosta continues to impress not only with his on-track performances but also with the way he absorbs and applies technical knowledge.
Paul Trevathan, the Spaniard’s crew chief, recently revealed behind-the-scenes details of Acosta’s adaptation to the technical demands of MotoGP, highlighting the rider’s unique talent.
Trevathan recalled the immediate impact Acosta had when he joined the championship, in an interview with Crash: ‘There was a lot of press at the time and stuff like that, but the part inside the box was the amazement of how much he could take on, how much he was already willing to gather as much information in the shortest amount of time and then put it into practice’.
Acosta also demonstrated a surprising talent for mastering the advanced technological systems of the bikes. Trevathan explained that, for the rider, understanding the bike’s electronic controls seemed as natural as… playing on a console: ‘Like all the gadgets on the bike, all the switches, it was like a Playstation: he was going through everything and the way that he could express himself and what we could tell him in the shortest period of time, and then he would go out and just do that’.
A rookie in 2024, Acosta earned KTM’s trust to promote him to the factory team, where he will have Brad Binder as a teammate.