Pedro Acosta, a promising rookie of KTM, crosses a complicated 2025 season, pointing 10th with 33 points after five Grands Prix. Despite a 7th place in Jerez and a 5th time to tests, the young Spaniard, operated for a lodges syndrome, struggled to shine, overshadowed by Maverick Viñales (4th in Jerez). Aki Ajo, director of KTM MotoGP, welcomes the attitude of Acosta and the form of Viñales, despite the financial uncertainty of KTM.
After the first five rounds of the MotoGP 2025 championship, Pedro Acosta point in 10th place du general classification only 33 points. For a pilot who impressed in the past last year, this season start is below expectations – especially in front of a Maverick Viñales transformed, now solid reference of the house KTM.
Despite this, the sports director Spendinghistoric mentor ofAcostaremains confident: ” Pedro has a very good attitude. He manages these complicated moments perfectly, and it is exactly in adversity that we become stronger. »
Between adaptation to a RC16 2025 still unstable, direct competition with Viñalesand a passage through the operating room To treat lodges syndrome, Acosta was not spared. Without forgetting the financial crisis that through KTMwhich maintains the rumors of an early departure from the young Spanish despite a multi -year contract.
« It is not because Pedro Acosta does not immediately shine that he fails »
Ajo short cuts to speculation: ” We don’t follow what is said in the paddock. We focus on what the team can do. Pedro works well, he learns, he observes, without trying to copy. »
The contrast is strong with its brand teammate Viñalesflamboyant on the KTM : podium erased by a penalty in Qatar, 4th in Jerez, and especially a found serenity. “” Maverick lives the best period in his lifementally. It is stable, professional, fast. For the whole team, it is a precious reference. » Acosta Do not try to imitate it, but inspire it: ” The important thing is to understand and use the news of everything around it. Pedro makes it intelligently. »
Spending Building on resilience: don’t panic, no precipitation. “” Pedro is in the learning phase. It is not because he does not immediately shine that he fails. It’s a construction season. He concludes on Crash.net.
