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“Pedro Acosta is MotoGP’s most exciting arrival since Marc Márquez”

MotoGP has never been harder fought than it is now. A decade of rewriting the rules, levelling up the grid and getting rid of any stragglers has seen to that.

Therefore it shouldn’t be possible for a teenager to come into the premier class and immediately run at the front. But that is exactly what Spaniard Pedro Acosta – who has just turned 20 – has done .

Acosta has been climbing to the class of kings for a while. In April 2021 he scored his first grand prix victory in his second appearance on a Moto3 world

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